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Construction of Individual Women as Iconic Representatives: Overview: Southeast Asia
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Iconic representation in island Southeast Asian cultures

The premodern, pre-Islamic cultures of modern Indonesian and Malaysia transmitted norms and values through didactic narratives in prose and verse forms. The didactic nature of the narratives, which were both oral and w…

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Hooker, Virginia, “Construction of Individual Women as Iconic Representatives: Overview: Southeast Asia”, in: Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, General Editor Suad Joseph. Consulted online on 01 October 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1872-5309_ewic_EWICCOM_0649>
First published online: 2010



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