Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Glossary of terms -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction to the Orang Asli -- The Klang Valley -- The Orang Asli -- Education -- Employment opportunities and income -- Health and medical services -- 2 Early and recent Orang Asli history -- The slave trade of 18th- and 19th-century Malaya -- British Malaya and governance -- The Orang Asli in post-independence Malaysia -- Sloth and heathen folly: the Orang Asli within Malaysia's modernisation narrative -- Malaynisation through Islamisation -- Orang Asli NGOs and indigenous activism -- 3 From the settlements and into the city: investigating Orang Asli experiences -- Administrative classification of Orang Asli settlements -- Migration and urban-village relations -- Maintaining urban-rural connections -- Marriage and divorce -- The sociality of sharing -- 4 Contextualising indigeneity -- Indigeneity in Malaysia -- Orang Asli and early Malay polities -- 5 Orang Asli and the question of gender -- Gender narratives and perceptions of gender roles in recent Orang Asli history -- The office of midwife -- Gender in Orang Asli leadership structures -- The gedo semaq of the Semelai -- The puyang of the Semelai -- 6 Inequality: the fragmentation of egalitarianism among the Orang Asli -- JAKOA and Orang Asli leadership -- Who holds the purse strings? Gender anxiety: development and implications of a cash economy -- Contemporary notions of gender roles among urban Orang Asli migrants -- Who wears the apron? Gender roles in the domestic sphere -- 7 Narratives on the Orang Asli and key considerations -- The big man speaks: governmental narratives -- The scholar speaks: academic narratives -- Reimagining the lines in Orang Asli studies -- Key considerations of this book -- Index.