부산대학교 도서관

This article reconstructs the history of the nationalist movement among the Dusunic peoples also known as Kadazandusun in the Malaysian state oj Sabah, and its demise following the formation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963. It analyses how the 'Kadazan national-ists' elaborated a modern, objectified culture based on cultural traits, symbols and traditions of rural peoples and used print media and local radio to spread it. When the Dusunic peoples were integrated as a minority in Malaysia, the nation builders acquired control of all the main media and excluded their languages and culture. The article then analyses the dynamics of the struggle between the ethnic group and the central government as reflected in cultural production, language development and loss, and in ethnic naming. While these issues reveal competition between various native elites they have nevertheless allowed the growth if a sense if belonging to a Dusunic ethnic group, however named. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]