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Book The Sea Dayaks of Borneo Before White Rajah Rule

Download or read book The Sea Dayaks of Borneo Before White Rajah Rule written by Benedict Sandin and published by London, Melbourne. This book was released on 1967 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sea Dayaks of Borneo  Before White Rajah Rule  Etc   With Plates and Maps

Download or read book The Sea Dayaks of Borneo Before White Rajah Rule Etc With Plates and Maps written by Benedict SANDIN and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sea Dayaks of Borneo Before White Rajah Rule  With a Pref  by Tom Harrisson and an Introd  by Robert M  Pringle   Illustr     London  usw    Macmillan 1967  XX  134 S  8

Download or read book The Sea Dayaks of Borneo Before White Rajah Rule With a Pref by Tom Harrisson and an Introd by Robert M Pringle Illustr London usw Macmillan 1967 XX 134 S 8 written by Benedict Sandin and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sea Dayaks of Borneo Before White Raja Rule

Download or read book The Sea Dayaks of Borneo Before White Raja Rule written by Benedict Sandin and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Ibans based on their oral genealogies.

Book Rajahs and Rebels

Download or read book Rajahs and Rebels written by Robert Pringle and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Politics of Reproductive Ritual

Download or read book The Politics of Reproductive Ritual written by Jeffery M. Paige and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A welcome addition. They argue that rituals of reproduction in preindustrial societies are essentially political. In these societies, they say, men need to control the reproductive power of women in order to establish political power; where there is no law or central government, ritual is used as a way of gaining control. The type of ritual will vary, they conclude, according to the economic base of the society. . . .for those whoa re interested in the subject, this book is indispensable. Its thesis is challenging and the documentation is excellent. Paige and Paige have mad ean essential contribution to a long debate, and their theory is sure to stir new and lively controversy." --Science Digest This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

Book Malaysia Official Year Book

Download or read book Malaysia Official Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Media and Nation Building

Download or read book Media and Nation Building written by John Postill and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the end of the Cold War and the proliferation of civil wars and "regime changes," the question of nation building has acquired great practical and theoretical urgency. From Eastern Europe to East Timor, Afghanistan and recently Iraq, the United States and its allies have often been accused of shirking their nation-building responsibilities as their attention - and that of the media -- turned to yet another regional crisis. While much has been written about the growing influence of television and the Internet on modern warfare, little is known about the relationship between media and nation building. This book explores, for the first time, this relationship by means of a paradigmatic case of successful nation building: Malaysia. Based on extended fieldwork and historical research, the author follows the diffusion, adoption, and social uses of media among the Iban of Sarawak, in Malaysian Borneo and demonstrates the wide-ranging process of nation building that has accompanied the Iban adoption of radio, clocks, print media, and television. In less than four decades, Iban longhouses ('villages under one roof') have become media organizations shaped by the official ideology of Malaysia, a country hastily formed in 1963 by conjoining four disparate territories.

Book Linguistic Studies offered to Berthe Siertsema

Download or read book Linguistic Studies offered to Berthe Siertsema written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Adventures Among the Dyaks of Borneo

Download or read book Adventures Among the Dyaks of Borneo written by Frederick Boyle and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book's description of Borneo's native people the Dyaks, a collection of hill-dwelling ethnic subgrouops, is full of condescension typical of contemporary European accounts of natives from the East. The book also delivers an appraisal of James Brooke's reign as the White Rajah of Sarawak since 1841.

Book Bondage and the Environment in the Indian Ocean World

Download or read book Bondage and the Environment in the Indian Ocean World written by Gwyn Campbell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsoon rains, winds, and currents have shaped patterns of production and exchange in the Indian Ocean world (IOW) for centuries. Consequently, as this volume demonstrates, the environment has also played a central role in determining the region’s systems of bondage and human trafficking. Contributors trace intricate links between environmental forces, human suffering, and political conditions, examining how they have driven people into servile labour and shaped the IOW economy. They illuminate the complexities of IOW bondage with case studies, drawn chiefly from the mid-eighteenth century, on Sudan, Cape Colony, Réunion, China, and beyond, where chattel slavery (as seen in the Atlantic world) represented only one extreme of a wide spectrum of systems of unfree labour. The array of factors examined here, including climate change, environmental disaster, disease, and market forces, are central to IOW history—and to modern-day forms of human bondage.

Book The Life of the Longhouse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Metcalf
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 052111098X
  • Pages : 359 pages

Download or read book The Life of the Longhouse written by Peter Metcalf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable longhouses of Borneo remain mysterious. This book describes life within them, and puts them in their historical and ethnographic context.

Book An Indonesian Frontier

Download or read book An Indonesian Frontier written by Anthony Reid and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the fruit of 40 years study of Sumatran history, from the 16th century to the present. While seeking patterns of coherence in the vast island frontier, this book focuses on Aceh, which has both the most illustrious state history and the most troubled present.

Book Naval Power

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeremy Black
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2009-11-20
  • ISBN : 1137059907
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Naval Power written by Jeremy Black and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man lives on land, but the seas of the world are crucial to his lot. Focusing on navies as instruments of power and analysing what they indicate about the nature of state systems and cultures all over the world, Black provides an overview of the most significant debates within the field. Organised into key historical periods and accessibly framed, this wide-ranging account emphasises the links between past and present throughout the history of naval power.

Book A World of Water

    Book Details:
  • Author : P. Boomgaard
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2007-01-01
  • ISBN : 9004254013
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book A World of Water written by P. Boomgaard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water, in its many guises, has always played a powerful role in shaping Southeast Asian histories, cultures, societies and economies. This volume, the rewritten results of an international workshop, with participants from eight countries, contains thirteen essays, representing a broad range of approaches to the study of Southeast Asia with water as the central theme. As it was exposed to the sea, the region was more accessible to outside political, economic and cultural influences than many landlocked areas. Easy access through sea routes also stimulated trade from an early age. However, the same easy access made Southeast Asia vulnerable to political control by strong outsiders. The sea is, moreover, a source of food, but also of many hazards. At the same time, Southeast Asian societies and cultures are confronted with and permeated by 'water from heaven' in the form of rain, flash floods, irrigation water, water in rivers, brooks and swaps, water-driven power plants, and pumped or piped water, in addition to water as a carrier of sewage and pollution. Finally, the volume deals with the role of water in classification systems, beliefs, myths, illness and healing.

Book Economic Change in East Malaysia

Download or read book Economic Change in East Malaysia written by A. Kaur and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative economic history of Sabah and Sarawak since the 19th century emphasising their distinctive colonial history and the attempts to modernise them since they became part of Malaysia in 1963. They remain dependent on the production and export of a relatively small range of primary products. The considerable scrutiny from environmentalists and international and local pressure groups of timber exports in particular is examined. The book's examination of economic strategy in these states since the 1880s, demonstrates that the roots of the problems in the 1980s lay in policies formulated in the wider context of capitalist economic growth.