An Early Morning

This is a creative piece, unpublished. It is based on my fieldwork experiences staying with Sengoi in Perak, written in 2003.
An Early Morning
You wake up in the early hours of the morning. The birds twitter outside, and the chickens scratch, pecking at indiscernible bits in the brown earth around your house. Occasionally, a cock [...]

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Reviews of two of my papers on Orang Asli

I just came upon these two articles, which review two pieces of my academic writing on the Orang Asli. Academic work is so difficult in comparison to journalistic writing – I am grateful that anyone has read any of it!
‘Orang Asli Lands in a Malay World’, published on March 1st, 2007, reviews the journal [...]

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Eating fruits from the jungle

There is a village nestled away in the hills of Perak where a little girl called Han Alice now lives. During my research with Orang Asli for a Masters thesis, I became good friends with her aunties. We played in the cools waters of the rushing river, watched Bollywood movies, and cooked vegetables over a [...]

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