'ORANG BARU' AND 'ORANG LAMA': WAYS OF BEING MALAY ON SINGAPORE'S NORTH-COAST

Abstract

Part One is on the patterns of the occupation of ecological niches on the North-coast and the Malay sub-ethnic composition. Part Two is on the status of the North-coast population as the indigenous people of Singapore. It deals also with the self-conception of these people and their concern for purity of Malay-ness and indigeny. Part Three is on the processes that lead to change in the modes of orientation previously prevailing among the local inhabitants. Part Four deals with the conception of Self and Other as manifested in the issue of Malay-ness.