• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Between Iron Formalism and Playful Relativism: Five Recent Studies in Malay Writing
  • Contributor: van der Putten, Jan
  • imprint: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2007
  • Published in: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1017/s002246340600097x
  • ISSN: 0022-4634; 1474-0680
  • Keywords: Sociology and Political Science ; History ; Geography, Planning and Development
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