The Peranakan Baba Nyonya culture: Resurgence or disappearance?
Hybridity of cultures can take many forms and permutations, including the borrowing of words and the adoption of social practices and beliefs, and the adaptation of dress and food. Patterns of migration and cultural flows in Southeast Asia have generated at different times and places all the abov...
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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2008
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1125/1/The_Peranakan_Baba_Nyonya_Culture.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1125/ http://www.ukm.my/sari/index.html |
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| Institution: | Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Hybridity of cultures can take many forms and permutations, including the
borrowing of words and the adoption of social practices and beliefs, and the
adaptation of dress and food. Patterns of migration and cultural flows in
Southeast Asia have generated at different times and places all the above
configurations and more. Under certain circumstances, what may emerge is a
whole new ethnic group or at the very least, a very recognizably different
subgroup of an existing ethnic category. One such group is the peranakan or
the baba nyonya community (also known as the Straits Chinese). It evolved in
the fifteenth century when the Chinese arrived in Malacca and intermarriage
with local women took place. The peranakan culture is a unique blend of two
cultures – Malay and Chinese – intermixed into a fascinating synthesis with
elements of Javanese, Batak, Thai and British cultures, representing
“multiculturalism” and “fusion”, long before the terms were invented. Today,
the world of the peranakan is a disappearing one |
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