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Along with Proudfoot, Kratz6 and Jones7 also cautioned that European collecting often involved the destruction of the tradition itself, that the collections were shorn of essential contextual information, and that the genre profile of the collections was unrepresentative of what texts actually circulated in the Malay world during the manuscript age. This article thus contributes a rather more literal intervention into the debate about colonial knowledge, considering not so much what colonial philologists made of the Malay manuscript tradition (though Marsden`s views of Malay literature will be discussed below) but rather the formation . . .
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