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From Myth To History: Yap Ah Loy And The Heroic Past Of Chinese Malaysians, Sharon Carstens
From Myth To History: Yap Ah Loy And The Heroic Past Of Chinese Malaysians, Sharon Carstens
Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations
The exploration of differing historical interpretations has become an area of growing interest to anthropologists and historians alike, who have come to recognize that diverse interpretations of the same events can create as powerful a force for future actions as the events themselves. Following this approach, history becomes not so much a narrative progression of events, as shifts in meaning structures over time. The impact of such a perspective on scholars of Southeast Asian societies has led to both an increasingly critical use of colonial sources as well as to renewed interest in native or indigenous documents. We have also …
Occupational Patterns Of Three Generations Of Taishan Chinese : A Reconsideration Of Middleman Minority Theory, Wei Wei Lou
Occupational Patterns Of Three Generations Of Taishan Chinese : A Reconsideration Of Middleman Minority Theory, Wei Wei Lou
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Middleman minority theory explains why certain minorities in America have made impressive socioeconomic achievements. It is found that their occupational patterns play an important role in their socioeconomic success. Middleman minorities usually concentrate in certain occupations and dominate these occupations. The term "middleman" indicates that such ethnic minorities are functioning as middleman between lower and upper class, customer and producer in the host society.
The three preconditions through which middleman minorities get into these occupations are cultural, contextual and situational variables.
The cultural variables concern mainly the homeland of the minorities, the value system of their native culture, and the …