Beyond the Green Myth: Hunter-Gatherers of Borneo in the Twenty-First Century - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8776940187 ISBN 13 : 9788776940188

Editeur : NIAS Press, 2008

Synopsis

Covers all areas of Borneo where current and former hunter-gatherers are known to live: Malaysian Sarawak, Brunei, and the two northern provinces of Indonesian Kalimantan. This book is the first ever to offer a comprehensive picture of the nomadic and formerly nomadic hunting-gathering groups of the Borneo tropical rain forest, totaling about 20,000 people. It presents a wealth of new research contributed by an international team of scholars (American, British, French, German, Indonesian, Malaysian, and Swedish). Covering all those parts of the island where nomads, called Penan, Punan, or by various other names, are or were known to exist (Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan), the book provides a comparative historical-ecological study of these groups, situated in the political-economic context of modernization (the monetary economy, formalized institutions, centralized power structures, contractual relationships, and extraction activities) and development policies. The impact of these policies is analyzed, with special regard to the natural environment, inhabited by these small-scale societies, and the use of its resources. While not assuming any stiff theoretical orientation, the work does inform ongoing debates about changing forms of ethnicity, relations between minorities and the state, minorities rights and survival, native discourse, the sustainability of tropical forest use, and the neo-romantic environmentalist myth of so-called wise traditional peoples.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter Sercombe comes from an academic background in Applied Linguistics and Language Education. He has had numerous positions working internationally including Brunei, Malaysia, Turkey, Borneo and the United Kingdom. Sercombe has an interest in sociolinguistics and Austronesian languages, in particular Iban and Penan.

Bernard Sellato has been involved with Borneo since 1973, first as a geologist and later as an anthropologist. A former director of the Institute for Research on Southeast Asia (CNRS and Université de Provence) in Marseilles, France, he is the author of numerous books and articles on the island (including Beyond the Green Myth, published by NIAS Press in 2007, and now Plaited Art from the Borneo Rainforest, due late 2011). Until recently, he was editor of the journal Moussons: Social Science Research on Southeast Asia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: NIAS Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8776940187
• ISBN 13: 9788776940188
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 398
• Éditeur: Sercombe Peter, Sellato Bernard
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible