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Border History from a Borneo Longhouse : The Search for a Life that is Very Good / Valerie Mashman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (274 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048553549
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.09598/3 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Longhouse and Connections Across Borders -- 3 Oral Narratives and Underlying Values -- 4 Methods for Researching the Narratives -- 5 Warfare and the Migrations of Our People -- 6 The Search for the “Life of Government” -- 7 The Beginning of “The Life of Prayer” -- 8 Conclusion -- Appendices -- Index
Summary: A headman of a remote Kelabit longhouse in Borneo is wrestling with recent changes caused by logging and roadbuilding. During this time of tension, he tells three historical narratives defining what makes the good life. His stories of history celebrate pioneering heroes who led through warfare and migrations, who interact with the Brooke state and initiate peace-making, and who journey to seek local Christian missionaries. This microhistory highlights the resilience of values in the face of transformative change, values providing a cultural structure for the Kelabit to redefine and adapt whilst maintaining their identity as a community. This work is relevant to Austronesian studies, Southeast Asian history, oral history, the anthropology of value, sociality and ethnic identity, Christian conversion, and issues of borderlands, decolonization, and indigeneity. It is of interest to readers concerned with the history of transnational peoples of Borneo, including the Kelabit, Sa’ban, Kenyah, Ngurek, Penan, and the Lun Dayeh.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9789048553549

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Longhouse and Connections Across Borders -- 3 Oral Narratives and Underlying Values -- 4 Methods for Researching the Narratives -- 5 Warfare and the Migrations of Our People -- 6 The Search for the “Life of Government” -- 7 The Beginning of “The Life of Prayer” -- 8 Conclusion -- Appendices -- Index

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A headman of a remote Kelabit longhouse in Borneo is wrestling with recent changes caused by logging and roadbuilding. During this time of tension, he tells three historical narratives defining what makes the good life. His stories of history celebrate pioneering heroes who led through warfare and migrations, who interact with the Brooke state and initiate peace-making, and who journey to seek local Christian missionaries. This microhistory highlights the resilience of values in the face of transformative change, values providing a cultural structure for the Kelabit to redefine and adapt whilst maintaining their identity as a community. This work is relevant to Austronesian studies, Southeast Asian history, oral history, the anthropology of value, sociality and ethnic identity, Christian conversion, and issues of borderlands, decolonization, and indigeneity. It is of interest to readers concerned with the history of transnational peoples of Borneo, including the Kelabit, Sa’ban, Kenyah, Ngurek, Penan, and the Lun Dayeh.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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