Geoffrey Benjamin
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View article: Performance and Aesthesis in Malay-World Musics, Religious and Secular
Performance and Aesthesis in Malay-World Musics, Religious and Secular Open
The Malay World has been home to a range of social formations, from nomadic hunter-gatherers on land and sea, through (semi-)sedentary swiddeners and forest traders, to state-incorporated peasants and aristocrats. In their religious and se…
View article: The Aslian languages of Malaysia and Thailand: an assessment
The Aslian languages of Malaysia and Thailand: an assessment Open
The term ‘Aslian’ refers to a distinctive group of approximately 20 Mon-Khmer languages spoken in Peninsular Malaysia and the isthmian parts of southern Thailand. This paper is concerned only with ‘Aslian languages’ in the narrow sense (ge…