Book
Malay history: Notes on the Negri Sembilan
Printed by J. E. Wallace at the F. M. S. Govt. Press • (5) • Published In 1911 • Pages: 51
By: Wilkinson, R. J. (Richard James).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper, one of a series prepared under Wilkinson's general editorship for the information of British officials in Malaya, deals with the history of the Negri Sembilan, the Nine States of the Menangkabau Malays in the Peninsula. Its main focus is the untangling of the historical facts about the origin of the population and of the constitution of the Negri Sembilan from the confusion of the fictionalised traditional accounts. Documentation and trenchant historical criticism are used to make it clear that the formation of the constitution of these states and the introduction of the Adat Perpateh (the legal principle of Matrilineal succession of the Menangkabau Malays) is relatively recent in origin and that the basis of the constitution is in fact the granting of titular rights to local chiefs by the Malacca-Johor sultanates and not the traditional descent of certain families (the Waris or 'hiers') on the maternal side from aboriginal Sakai inhabitants of the soil. This disposes, to a considerable extent, of the problem of the ethnological history of the Negri Sambilan, its social organization and the derivation thereof (see 1:Winstedt).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Mythology
- Citizenship
- Chief executive
- Form and rules of government
- Territorial hierarchy
- External relations
- Warfare
- Legal norms
- Extended families
- Litigation
- Sanctions
- Taxation and public income
- Clans
- Community heads
- Ethnic stratification
- Sociocultural trends
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Malays
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- F. K. Lehman ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1911
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Negri Sembilan State, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] R. J. Wilkinson
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Malays (Asian people)