ORANG ASLI SELF-DETERMINATION and the Control of Resources Colin Nicholas Published in Cultural Survival Quarterly 23:49-54. 1999 Orang Asli is the collective term for the 19 sub-groups of ‘first peoples’ in Peninsular Malaysia. Numbering 105,000 in 1997 – or a mere 0.5 per cent of the Malaysian population – the Orang Asli are largely forest …
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COLOURS IN INDIGENOUS CULTURES Colin Nicholas Published in The New Straits Times Annual 1997/1998. pp. 100-107. The indigenous communities in Sabah and Sarawak seem to have so much colour in their material culture that the Orang Asli groups in Peninsular Malaysia seem ‘pale’ by comparison. Yet the use of colours is important in indigenous …
ORANG ASLI LANGUAGE-LOSS Problems & Prospects Colin Nicholas Paper presented at the Seminar on ‘Mother Tongue Education of Ethnic Minorities in Malaysia: Problems and Prospects’, 1-2 November 1997, Dong Jiao Zong Higher Learning Centre, Kajang. Subsequently published in Kua Kia Soong (ed) (1998), Mother Tongue Education of Malaysian Ethnic Minorities, Dong Jiao Zong Higher Learning Centre, Kajang, …
PUTTING THE PEOPLE IN EIAs Assessing Environmental Impacts on Indigenous Peoples This is the summary of a paper given at a seminar organised by the Malaysian Nature Society on Environmental Impact Assessments. It was subsequently published in the Malayan Naturalist, Vol. 51, No. 1, August 1997, pp. 34-38. To read the PDF copy of it, please click here.
ORGANISING ORANG ASLI IDENTITY Colin Nicholas Paper presented at the “Conference on Tribal Communities in the Malay World: Historical, Cultural and Social Perspectives”, ISEAS, Singapore, 24-27 March 1997. Jointly organised by International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Institut fur Ethnologie, Institute for Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) and Center for Environment, Gender and Development (Engender). Subsequently …
STEALING STORIES Communication and Indigenous Autonomy Colin Nicholas Published in Media Development, Issue no. 3, 1997, London. Traditionally, when the Orang Asli (the indigenous minority peoples of Peninsular Malaysia) wanted to disseminate a message it was done by word of mouth. One community was responsible for communicating a particular message to the next, which in turn was …
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THE ORIGINAL CHAMPION Dr. Tan Chee Khoon and the Orang Asli Cause Colin Nicholas 22 October, 1996 Published in Aliran Monthly. 16(8) pp. 28-30. 1996. In the early 1980s, whenever people heard that I was researching the Orang Asli they always referred me to the writings of Dr. Tan Chee Khoon, particularly his articles in The Star and Utusan Melayu in …
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LOOKING AT LAND DIFFERENTLY A Tale of Two Orang Asli Women Colin Nicholas Published as ‘Not One and the Same: A Tale of Two Orang Asli Women in WAVES (Newsletter of the All Women Action Society), Issue No. 17, June-August 1995, pp 12-13. Our little party of five concede defeat to the blistering sun, and proceed, …
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TIME TO RECIPROCATE Colin Nicholas Published as “We Need to Reciprocate” in Hood Salleh (ed)(1993), Orang Asli: An Appreciation. Jabatan Anthropologi dan Sociologi, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, pp. 32-37. My involvement with the Orang Asli began with a selfish motive: I was then interested in jungle trekking and knew the Orang Asli had much to show …
Merchant Capital and THE SIMPLE REPRODUCTION SQUEEZE in Semai Society This is an early article written for an academic audience in the field of political economics. Published in Ilmu Masyarakat, Vol. 21, 1992, pp.74-82. To read the PDF version of this article, please click here.
