Core Project Anthropology ILCAA

Changes in Orang Asli Lives in Malaysia: Engaged Visual Ethnography

Date: 23. Feb. 2023 (Thu) 5:00-7:30pm (Japan time), Venue: Zoom

'Orang Asli' is the general term for the Indigenous Peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, which comprises 18 divers groups: sea people, cultivators, hunter-gatherers, and so on.
Under the rapid development of Malaysia, the Orang Asli have experienced significant changes in their lives.
This symposium will bring together Orang Asli representatives, Malaysian researchers, and Japanese researchers to talk about these changes, through the use of visual images.

Proceedings

"Performing the Self and Playing with the Otherness: Clothing and Costuming under Transcultural conditions"

We now live in transcultural world, where people, goods, culture, information easily cross the boundaries of regions and nations. Given this situation, we have come to the experience concerning facial and bodily expressions in a new way. For instance, uncountable images of the face (or body) have appeared through electronic media, among other ways. As a result, we have come to be pressed with the global standardization of the choice, interpretation, and sense of beauty.....