In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Paul H Kratoska
p. ix
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0023
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How Many Polities Called Tanjungpura Have There Been in Borneo?

F. Andrew Smith
pp. 1-25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0024
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'Sixteen Naked Indians': First Contact between the British and the Orang Asli

Teckwyn Lim
pp. 27-42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0025
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Malays in the Indochinese Peninsula: The Rise and Fall of a 'Tuan' in Precolonial Mainland Southeast Asia

Nicolas Weber
pp. 43-65
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0026
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References to Singapore and its Straits from the 16th to the Early 19th Century

Benjamin J. Q. Khoo, Peter Borschberg
pp. 67-95
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The Uses of Magic: Local Knowledge and the 'Unscientific Native' in Colonial Malaya

Farish A. Noor
pp. 97-119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0028
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Colonial birding in the Thai-Malay Peninsula: Birds from the Selangor Museum now in World Museum, Liverpool

John-James Wilson
pp. 121-139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0029
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Becoming Malay: The Case of the Batak Orphans in 1930s Perak

Lynn Hollen Lees
pp. 141-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0030
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The Kingdom of Perak

J. E. de la Croix
pp. 169-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0031
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William Scott in Penang: Missing Material, Maritime Matters, and More

F. Andrew Smith
pp. 185-197
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0032
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Federated Malay States Museum, Kuala Lumpur, 21 September 1945

Office of Strategic Services, India Burma Theater
pp. 197-200
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Jacques de Morgan's Explorations in the Malay Peninsula, 1884 ed. by Andrée Jaunay (review)

Kirk Endicott
pp. 201-203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0033
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Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Asia by Diana S. Kim (review)

Simon Soon
pp. 203-206
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0034
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Christian Circulations: Global Christianity and the Local Church in Penang and Singapore 1819-2000 by Jean DeBernardi (review)

Barbara Watson Andaya
pp. 206-210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0035
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Cross-Cultural Exchange and the Colonial Imaginary. Global Encounters via Southeast Asia ed. by H. Hazel Hahn (review)

Nicolas Weber
pp. 210-212
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0036
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Mosques and Imams: Everyday Islam in Eastern Indonesia ed. by Kathryn Robinson (review)

Thomas Gibson
pp. 212-217
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0037
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Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial law and Arabs in Southeast Asia by Nurfadzilah Yahaya (review)

Sai Siew-Min
pp. 217-219
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0038
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Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia: From the Past to the Present ed. by Bérénice Bellina, Roger Blench and Jean-Christoph Galipaud (review)

Anton O. Zakharov
pp. 220-223
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0039
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Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability by Gerald Sim (review)

Nadine Chan
pp. 224-225
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0040
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The Bugis Chronicle of Bone transed. by Campbell Macknight, Mukhlis Paeni, and Mukhlis Hadrawi (review)

Salina Hj Zainol
pp. 225-226
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0041
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Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History ed. by Alfian Sa'at, Faris Joraimi, and Sai Siew Min, and: Thomas Stamford Raffles: Schemer or Reformer? by Syed Hussein Alatas (review)

Nurhidayahti Mohammad Miharja
pp. 227-230
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0042
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Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600–c.1906 by Heather Sutherland (review)

Steven Farram
pp. 230-232
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0043
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In the Name of the Battle Against Piracy: Ideas and Practices in State Monopoly of Maritime Violence in Europe and Asia in the Period of Transition by Ota Atsushi (review)

Scott Abel
pp. 232-234
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0044
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Revisiting Malaya: Uncovering Historical and Political Thoughts in Nusuntara ed. by Show Ying Xin and Ngoi Guat Peng (review)

Liaw Siau Chi
pp. 234-236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0045
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A Borneo Healing Romance: Ritual Storytelling and the Sugi Sakit, A Saribas Iban Rite of Healing by Clifford Sather (review)

Kamal Solhaimi Fadzil
pp. 236-238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0046
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Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Persatuan Asia Diraja Bahagian Malaysia: Annual Report for the period 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020

pp. 239-241
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