Malays in Singapore: culture, economy, and ideology

Preface acknowledgments tables Introduction PART I CULTURE, ECONOMY, AND THE HOUSEHOLD: Conceptual framework: Householding and Malay kinship: Householding Kinship, commodification, and the gift Household membership and consumption rights: Household membership Consumption rights Householding: Husband and wife: The obligations of maintenance and housework Budgetary margins and the distribution of rewards Domestic labour: An undervalued commodity Property division: Separate economics and the balance of power Householding: The Malay cultural heritage and the Islamic Law Divorce Householding: Parents and children: The care of a young child Parents and working children Parents and unmarried working daughters Parents and unmarried working sons Authority and the flow of giving Parents and children: Old age The personal life span and the afterlife Kinship sentiment and the value of children Householding relationships and the expansion of economic resources: Individual salvation and the dispersal of inheritance Parental investment in children: Land and education The Malay household and business enterprise PART II: STRUCTURING PRACTICES: CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC DIFFERENTIATION IN SINGAPORE 1959-1984: The formation of the Singapore Malay community The pattern of migration and settlement Ethnic sentiment and the development of new cultural forms Malays in the national economic and educational system: The economic position of Malays and Chinese prior to 1959 Chinese and Malay economic positions 1959-1980 Labour-force participation and household size Entrepreneurship Discrimination The distribution of opportunities and rewards in the national economy The national education system Malays and education The cultural basis of class differentiation: The impact of external conditions on household form The sense of class and the achievement of social mobility Individual and community: The cultural heritage Class and hierarchy in the presence of the Chinese Malay entrepreneurship: The Malay niche in entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship within the Malay Community The competitive context: Chinese householding and entrepreneurship: The Chinese household The Chinese family and business PART III CULTURE, ECONOMY, AND IDEOLOGY: Culture, economy, and idealogy: Culture and Malay backwardness: The development of the orthodox view Economic differentiation and cultural orthodoxy in the 1980s Ideology in Singapore: Cultural explanations for structural inequalities Conclusion.