Download or read book A White Headhunter in Borneo written by Stephen Holley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Home Life of Borneo Head Hunters Its Festivals and Folk Lore written by William Henry Furness and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-09-07 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the fascinating world of Borneo's indigenous tribes with William Henry Furness's "The Home-Life of Borneo Head-Hunters: Its Festivals and Folk-Lore". This captivating ethnographic study offers a unique glimpse into the rich cultural tapestry of Borneo's head-hunting communities, exploring their traditions, festivals, and folklore with meticulous detail and empathetic insight. Join William Henry Furness as he delves into the daily lives and cultural practices of the Borneo head-hunters, providing readers with an intimate portrait of their society. Through firsthand observations and engaging narrative, Furness captures the essence of their home life, from the intricate rituals of their festivals to the enchanting stories passed down through generations. Furness's masterful storytelling weaves together themes of tradition, community, and cultural identity. Each chapter serves as a valuable hook-point, drawing readers into a world where the past and present coexist in a vibrant tapestry of customs and beliefs. With its blend of vivid descriptions and scholarly analysis, "The Home-Life of Borneo Head-Hunters" sets an informative and immersive tone that appeals to both anthropologists and general readers. From the lively celebrations of tribal festivals to the haunting beauty of Borneo's folk tales, Furness paints a vivid picture of a culture that is both ancient and enduring. Since its publication, "The Home-Life of Borneo Head-Hunters" has been acclaimed for its detailed ethnographic work and respectful portrayal of Borneo's indigenous people. Its enduring relevance and cultural richness continue to captivate readers, offering profound insights into the traditions and lifestyles of a unique community. As you delve into the pages of "The Home-Life of Borneo Head-Hunters", you'll find yourself drawn to its rich cultural detail, compelling themes, and engaging storytelling. Furness's keen observations and his ability to craft a comprehensive narrative make this book a cherished resource for those interested in anthropology and cultural studies. In conclusion, "The Home-Life of Borneo Head-Hunters" is more than just an ethnographic study—it’s a timeless exploration of human culture, tradition, and identity that continues to inspire and educate readers. Whether you're a longtime student of anthropology or discovering this cultural gem for the first time, prepare to be enlightened by William Henry Furness's authoritative and engaging account. Don't miss your chance to explore the rich cultural heritage of Borneo. Let "The Home-Life of Borneo Head-Hunters" guide you through the vibrant traditions and captivating folklore of this unique community. Grab your copy now and join the many readers who have been inspired by Furness's masterful work.
Download or read book The Head Hunters of Borneo written by Carl Bock and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's travels through Borneo and Sumatra.
Download or read book The Head Hunters of Borneo A Narrative of Travel up the Mahakkam and Down the Barito Also Journeyings in Sumatra written by Carl Bock and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Download or read book Soldier H The Headhunters of Borneo written by Shaun Clarke and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963, the former British colony of Malaya was lobbying for the formation of a new political entity, the Federation of Malaysia, Singapore, Sabeh (North Borneo), Brunei and Sarawak. Viewing this as a threat to his dreams of expansion, President Sukarno of Indonesia began infiltrating insurgents into Borneo. In response, the British organised a force of Malay, British and Commonwealth troops to contain the rebels. What was most desperately needed, however, was a specialist group who could perform highly dangerous and arduous military tasks in the inhospitable, perilous terrain. The only men suitable for such operations were the legendary Special Air Service the SAS! Soldier H SAS: The Headhunters of Borneo is the story of one of the least-known, most extraordinary wars in British history. The SAS braved jungle and swamp infested with snakes, lizards, leeches, wild pigs and all kinds of poisonous insects to live with the primitive, headhunting natives in their longhouses by the rivers, winning their hearts and minds with medical aid and other assistance, then training them as paramilitaries who would eventually become known as the Border Scouts. While some of the SAS remained for months with the headhunters, other moved even deeper into the unexplored jungle 'the Gap' to establish ambush sites and helicopter landing zones. They also conducted daring 'Claret' raids across the border when, as the renowned 'Tiptoe Boys' who hit hard and vanished fast, they set booby traps and ambushed enemy troops moving along the many jungle tracks and rivers. They fought a bloody, nightmarish war and won it.
Download or read book Head Hunters in the Malayan Emergency written by Dan Poole and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Head Hunters in the Malayan Emergency investigates the infamous political scandal sparked after horrific photographs of war crimes during the Malayan Emergency were leaked to the British press. These photographs depicted British forces and their allies in Malaya scalping corpses and posing with decapitated human heads. The subsequent scandal, involving British generals, police, trade unions, and even Winston Churchill, led to the further discoveries that British forces had deployed over 1,000 men from Bornean headhunting tribes to Malaya, were publicly displaying corpses to terrify Malaya's civilian population into submission, and that photographs of such atrocities had become popular souvenirs among British troops. Using newly uncovered photographs, eyewitness accounts, and government documents, this research is the first ever attempt by any historian to create a complete history of the British-Malayan Headhunting Scandal, its political consequences, the stories of those involved, and its attempted cover-up.
Download or read book Sylvia Queen Of The Headhunters written by Philip Eade and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of the last Ranee of Sarawak, born into the aristocracy as Sylvia Brett in 1885 and destined to become 'Queen of the Headhunters'. 'Jaw-dropping ... If you thought White Mischief the last word in English expatriate decadence, you haven't yet met Sylvia and the Brookes' The Times Sylvia Brooke was the consort of His Highness Sir Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, the last in a bizarre dynasty of English despots who ruled their jungle kingdom on Borneo until 1946. The White Rajahs were long held up as model rulers, but the spectacularly eccentric behaviour of Ranee Sylvia - self-styled Queen of the Headhunters - changed everything. This is the compelling story of her part in their downfall.
Download or read book HEAD HUNTERS written by ALFRED C. HADDON and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Semut written by Christine Helliwell and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: March 1945. A handful of young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, east of Singapore, there to recruit the island’s indigenous Dayak peoples to fight the Japanese. Yet most have barely encountered Asian or indigenous people before, speak next to no Borneo languages, and know little about Dayaks, other than that they have been – and may still be – headhunters. They fear that on arrival the Dayaks will kill them or hand them over to the Japanese. For their part, some Dayaks have never before seen a white face. So begins the story of Operation Semut, an Australian secret operation launched by the organisation codenamed Services Reconnaisance Department – popularly known as Z Special Unit – in the final months of WWII. Anthropologist Christine Helliwell has called on her years of first-hand knowledge of Borneo, interviewed more than one hundred Dayak people and all the remaining Semut operatives, and consulted thousands of military and other documents to piece together this astonishing story. Focusing on the operation's activities along two of Borneo’s great rivers – the Baram and Rejang – the book provides a detailed military history of Semut II’s and Semut III’s brutal guerrilla campaign against the Japanese, and reveals the decisive but long-overlooked Dayak role in the operation. But this is no ordinary history. Helliwell captures vividly the sounds, smells and tastes of the jungles into which the operatives are plunged, an environment so terrifying that many are unsure whether jungle or Japanese is the greater enemy. And she takes us into the lives and cavernous longhouses of the Dayaks on whom their survival depends. The result is a truly unique account of the encounter between two very different cultures amidst the savagery of the Pacific War.
Download or read book The Airmen and the Headhunters written by Judith M. Heimann and published by HMH. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of downed B-24s in Japanese-occupied Borneo and a native tribe that “makes us—like the airmen—rethink our definitions of civilized and savage” (Entertainment Weekly). November 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, a scattered crew of Army airmen cut themselves loose from their parachutes—only to be met by loincloth-wearing natives silently materializing out of the mountainous jungle. Would these Dayak tribesmen turn the starving airmen over to the hostile Japanese occupiers? Or would the Dayaks risk vicious reprisals to get the airmen safely home in a desperate game of hide-and-seek? A cinematic survival story featuring a bamboo airstrip built on a rice paddy, a mad British major, and a blowpipe-wielding army that helped destroy one of the last Japanese strongholds, The Airmen and the Headhunters is also a gripping tale of wartime heroism unlike any other you have read.
Download or read book The Man who Became a Savage written by William Temple Hornaday and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Search of the Rain Forest written by Candace Slater and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a marvelously wild and vulnerable rain forest. Although representations like these have fueled laudable rescue efforts, in many ways they have done more harm than good, as these essays show. Such icons tend to conceal both the biological variety of rain forests and the diversity of their human inhabitants. They also frequently obscure the specific local and global interactions that are as much a part of today’s rain forests as are the array of plants and animals. In attending to these complexities, this volume focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these characterizations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders. From diverse disciplines—history, archaeology, sociology, literature, law, and cultural anthropology—the contributors provide case studies from Latin America, Asia, and Africa. They point the way toward a search for a rain forest that is both a natural entity and a social history, an inhabited place and a shifting set of ideas. The essayists demonstrate how the single image of a wild and yet fragile forest became fixed in the popular mind in the late twentieth century, thereby influencing the policies of corporations, environmental groups, and governments. Such simplistic conceptions, In Search of the Rain Forest shows, might lead companies to tout their “green” technologies even as they try to downplay the dissenting voices of native populations. Or they might cause a government to create a tiger reserve that displaces peaceful peasants while opening the doors to poachers and bandits. By encouraging a nuanced understanding of distinctive, constantly evolving forests with different social and natural histories, this volume provides an important impetus for protection efforts that take into account the rain forest in all of its complexity. Contributors. Scott Fedick, Alex Greene, Paul Greenough, Nancy Peluso, Suzana Sawyer, Candace Slater, Charles Zerner
Download or read book The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo written by Henry Ling Roth and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1896.
Download or read book Headhunting and Colonialism written by R. Roque and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of headhunting and the collection of heads for European museums in the context of colonial wars, from the 1870s to the 1930s. The book offers a new understanding of the mutually dependent interaction between indigenous peoples and colonial powers, and how collected remains became regarded as objects of wider significance.
Download or read book The White Rajah written by Steven Runciman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The White Rajah documents a fascinating time in Sarawak made possible by high integrity of three generations of Brooke men.
Download or read book The White Rajah written by Nicholas Monsarrat and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The breathtaking island of Makassang, in the Java Sea, is the setting for this tremendous historical novel. Piracy, plundering and barbarism are rife. The ageing Rajah, threatened by rebellion, enlists the help of Richard Marriott - baronet's son-turned-buccaneer, but Richard falls for the Rajah's daughter.
Download or read book Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds written by Mackenzie Cooley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds explore the relationships among natural things - ranging from pollen in a gust of wind to a carnivorous pitcher plant to a shell-like skinned armadillo - and the humans enthralled with them. Episodes from 1500 to the early 1900s reveal connected histories across early modern worlds as natural things traveled across the Indian Ocean, the Ottoman Empire, Pacific islands, Southeast Asia, the Spanish Empire, and Western Europe. In distant worlds that were constantly changing with expanding networks of trade, colonial aspirations, and the rise of empiricism, natural things obtained new meanings and became alienated from their origins. Tracing the processes of their displacement, each chapter starts with a piece of original artwork that relies on digital collage to pull image sources out of place and to represent meanings that natural things lost and remade. Accessible and elegant, Natural Things is the first study of its kind to combine original visualizations with the history of science. Museum-goers, scholars, scientists, and students will find new histories of nature and collecting within. Its playful visuality will capture the imagination of non-academic and academic readers alike while reminding us of the alienating capacity of the modern life sciences.
