Acehnology: Volume IV Identity, the Malay World, and the Contemporary Order in the Study of Aceh

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Who are the Acehnese, and how is that identity remade inside a Malay world reshaped by nation-states, markets, migration, and global politics?Acehnology, Volume IV: Identity, the Malay World, and the Contemporary Order in the Study of Aceh continues Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad's interdisciplinary inquiry into how Aceh understands itself and how it is understood by others. Building on the foundations, metaphysics, and intellectual traditions mapped in Volumes I to III, this volume turns to the problem of identity: how it is formed, inherited, contested, and performed.The study situates Aceh within the wider Malay world, tracing the historical and cultural threads that connect Acehnese society to the Malay Peninsula, the Straits, and the maritime networks of Southeast Asia. It asks what remains of that shared world once colonial borders, national ideologies, and modern institutions have redrawn the map, and how Acehnese self-understanding has been reorganised in response.The book then examines the contemporary order. It considers the pressures of state formation, law, education, religious authority, media, and economic change on Acehnese identity, and the ways in which tradition is invoked, revised, or defended in public life. Identity here is treated not as a fixed inheritance but as a field of negotiation in which memory, language, religion, and political interest continually meet.Written for scholars and general readers alike, this volume offers a rigorous yet accessible account of Aceh in the present, and of the conceptual tools that the study of Aceh, or Acehnology, contributes to Southeast Asian studies, anthropology, and the sociology of religion.Part of THE ACEHNOLOGY SERIES, in six volumes. Published by KBA13 Insight.