@article{oai:minpaku.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004161,
 author = {フサインミヤ, バチャ ミヤ・アブドゥル and Hussainmiya, Bachamiya Abdul},
 issue = {1},
 journal = {国立民族学博物館研究報告, Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology},
 month = {Aug},
 note = {This paper is concerned with the Malays of Sri Lanka, who as many
outsiders have observed is a distinctly identifiable racial group, and has
managed to retain its separate ethnic identity against several odds
throughout its more than three and half centuries of existence.
This paper reviews some aspects of ethnicity among the Sri Lankan
Malays. It is in fact a field well-nigh a prerogative of sociologists and
cultural anthropologists whose usage of such cultural anthropological
terminology as ethnicity, ethnic identity, and ethnic consciousness in relation
to a study of this nature reflects care and scientific precision. This exercise
cannot lay claim to such strict methodological inquiry or conceptualization
when discussing Sri Lankan Malay 'ethnicity'. However,
from the point of view of the members of the community itself, who
treats themselves proudly as scions of an Eastern race, it would be appropriate
to use such terms freely to highlight their unique ethnicity visa-
vis a competing and over-whelming cultural situation.
Ethnicity, in the anthropologist's parlance usually means "a proclamation
of identity and worth in opposition to outsiders." [NORTON
1983: 191]. It is further described as "an ongoing process, a reaction to
categorical ascription by others as well as a reaction to the creation and
incorporation of symbols into the collective identity." [STAIANO1980:
29]. It also involves "the search for identity, the formulation of some
symbolic description of self." [STAiANo 1980: 30]. This means in the
first place that an analysis of Sri Lankan Malay ethnicity must concern
itself with how the group perceives and defines itself. This in fact is a better
starting point to understand the question of ethnicity of the present
day Malay community. How do we define a "Malay" within the Sri
Lankan context.},
 pages = {189--200},
 title = {Aspects of Ethnicity among the Sri Lankan Malays},
 volume = {22},
 year = {1997}
}