ISBN:
9780521110983
,
9780511657795
,
9781282402515
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 345 p.)
,
ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Life of the Longhouse : An Archaeology of Ethnicity
DDC:
305.89009598/3
Keywords:
Community life History
;
Longhouses History
;
Ethnicity History
;
Brunei Commerce
;
History
;
Borneo Commerce
;
Social aspects
;
History
;
Borneo Commerce
;
China Commerce
;
Borneo Politics and government
;
Borneo Antiquities
;
Borneo Social life and customs
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The remarkable longhouses of Borneo remain mysterious. Peter Metcalf describes life within them, and puts them in their historical and ethnographic context
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover ; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; The Problem: Ethnicity and Community; Part I Longhouses; Part II Longhouses and Leaders; Part III Longhouse and Trade; Part IV Longhouse Populations; Part V Longhouses and Ritual; Part VI Longhouses and the State; Conclusion: The General in the Particular; Appendix: Longhouse Communities in the Baram Watershed, 1972; Bibliography; Index of Ethnonyms; Index of Authors and Subjects
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-340) and indexes
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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