Culture and Fertility: The Case of Malaysia

Culture and Fertility: The Case of Malaysia
ISBN-10
997190215X
ISBN-13
9789971902155
Series
Culture and Fertility
Category
Social Science
Pages
112
Language
English
Published
1980
Publisher
Institute of Southeast Asian
Authors
Nor Laily Aziz, Tan Boon Ann, Ghazali Mohd Noor

Description

One of the salient features to strike the researcher doing the study on culture and fertility of the people in Peninsular Malaysia is the cultural heterogeneity of its present population. Although the Malays or "bumiputeras" (sons of the soil) were original residents, other ethnic groups, mainly the Indonesians, Chinese and Indians, have contributed to current size, composition and distribution of the population through the process of immigration in the course of history. the topical areas under the first two sections of this monograph are indeed very wide, both in time and other perspectives. As a result, we have demarcated the period prior to the impact of colonialism and the growth of plural society during the British period as points in time which have relevant demographic and cultural significance for the purposes of this paper.

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