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Peranakan Studies
Peranakan Studies is a Lewis Notes E-book about the Peranakan people of Southeast Asia, and, by extension, about similar people's all around the world and through human history. The Peranakan people are the Sino-Malay ethnocultures that developed as a result of interaction between Chinese traders and pioneers and Indo-Malay speaking natives, that was particularly elaborated during the colonial periods of both the first and second phase of European imperial colonialism.
These people elaborated particular and characteristic ethnocultural style patterns in food, language, customs, clothing, arts and crafts, architecture, literature and business that was distinctive to their heritage and that represented the amalgamation of both Chinese and indigenous elements. They are interesting as they represent a prototypical ethnoculture that emerged as the result of creative transculturative processes between multiple groups of people.
The links to the primary portals of this framework are found below:
