摘要：The diverse nature of multicultural, multiethnic and multi-religious Malaysia, and its accompanying socio-cultural and political challenges, attracts the curiosity and, subsequently, prompts academic investigation of many researchers from within and outside the country to interrogate particularly issues of ethnicity, identities and politics. In his doctoral study, which culminated in the form of a book titled, Ethnicization and Identity Construction in Malaysia, German scholar Frederik Holst looks at the processes of what he calls ethnicization and identity construction in the country where ethnicity usually takes centre stage.
