caa a22 4500 467898618 CHVBK 20180406152811.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10708-006-9025-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10708-006-9025-0 Ling Ooi National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore aut Mahsuri's curse—globalisation and tourist development in Pulau Langkawi [Elektronische Daten] [Ooi Ling] The legend of Mahsuri abounds in Malaysian school textbooks. Mahsuri was a beautiful and very charming village maiden who lived in Pulau Langkawi and was wrongfully put to death in 1819 or the year 1235 hijrab. Accused of adultery by a jealous member of the royal house, Mahsuri, who was married to the Chief Minister, was sentenced to death together with her alleged lover, a trader from a place which is now part of Thailand in Phuket. Killed with her own family's keris (a traditional Malay sword), Mahsuri put a curse on Pulau Langkawi for seven generations. She swore before her death that there would be no peace or prosperity on the island for the duration of these seven generations. Mahsuri's family moved to another village in what was then the territory of Thailand and finally settled in Phuket, illustrating the cultural and trading links that have existed in this northern part of Malaysia between the southern parts of Thailand and the states of Perlis and Kedah. Mahsuri's family and she appear to have not been allowed to rest in peace since her premature death. Her tomb, which was enshrined by the villagers, has been relocated several times and the exact location of its whereabouts may not be known. The tombstone itself is now housed in a museum that has been constructed near to the site where the tomb is believed to be. A huge tourist complex called Kota Mahsuri is being developed around the site of Mahsuri's tomb. Pulau Langkawi may be the island paradise lost. Perhaps Mahsuri's curse lingers, no matter that seven generations have passed and with them the industries that integration with the global economy has seen developed, declined and disappeared. Then again, perhaps this is indeed the curse—the quest for prosperity in a globalizing world and its relentless exploitation of the heritage in strategic parts of Malaysia—both natural and cultural—for the gains of a few and questionable benefits to the rest. Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2006 Globalisation nationallicence Economic integration nationallicence Commodification nationallicence GeoJournal Springer Netherlands 66/3(2006-07-01), 199-209 0343-2521 66:3<199 2006 66 10708 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-9025-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-9025-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ling Ooi National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- GeoJournal Springer Netherlands 66/3(2006-07-01), 199-209 0343-2521 66:3<199 2006 66 10708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer