| 书目名称 | Doing Lifework in Malaysia | | 编辑 | Souchou Yao | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Seeks to untangle philosophical questions at the core of post-colonial Asian identity.Examines the freedom with which Malaysians approach their lifework.Provides their strategies in managing the issue | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .Malaysia is a prosperous, developing nation in Southeast Asia. Its citizens face the problems that beset people’s lives all over the world. These problems are about the family and economic security, as well as the existential choices we customarily associate with the residents of developed societies. Through the anthropologist’s art of ethnography and cultural analysis, the book shows the way ordinary Malaysians manage the contingencies, the chanciness in their daily existence. In a mildly postcolonial gesture, .Doing Lifework in Malaysia. transports the work of Heidegger, Arendt, Camus, Sartre—masters of European existentialism—to a recognizably ‘Third World’ situation. The result is a series of penetrating and illuminating essays that cover a broad range of social actors, among them a Tamil domestic servant, the film maker Jasmin Ahmed, a Malay corporate wheeler-and-dealer turned ecologist, a group of Chinese traders in the Sarawak interior and a female ex-communist insurgent. As such, this fascinating study examines the Malaysian social life afresh, and in the process brings into focus issues not normally covered in other accounts: Hindu worship as a defiance against tradition, | | 出版日期 | Book 2022 | | 关键词 | Contingency; Anthropology; Malaysia; Religion; Politics | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2087-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-981-19-2089-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-981-19-2087-5 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapor |
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