Library Item Details
- Main Title
- The myth of the lazy native : a study of the image of the Malays, Filipinos and Javanese from the 16th to the 20th century and its function in the ideology of colonial capitalism
- Author(s)
- Alatas, Syed Hussein
- Publisher
- Abingdon, OX : Routledge, 2010.
- Collation
- vii, 267 p.
22 cm. - ISBN
- 9780415604086
- Dewey Class
- 959.004992
- Contents
- The image of the Malays until the time of Raffles -- British image of the Malays in the late 19th century and 20th century -- The image of the Filipinos during the 17th to the 19th century -- The image of the Javanese from the 18th to the 20th century -- The image of indolence and the corresponding reality -- Colonial capitalism and its attitude towards labour in the 19th and early 20th century -- The indolence of the Filipinos -- The colonial image and the study of national character -- The Malay concept of industry and indolence -- "Mental revolution" and the indolence of the Malays -- The distortion of Malay character -- The disappearance of the indigenous trading class -- Conclusion.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- National characteristics, Philippine.
National characteristics, Malay.
National characteristics, Javanese. - BRN
- 6369
Notes
- First published 1977 by Frank Cass and Company Ltd.
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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959.004992 ALA
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