The life of the longhouse : an archaeology of ethnicity /

"For two centuries, travellers were amazed at the massive buildings found along the rivers that flow from the mountainous interior of Borneo. They concentrated hundreds of people under one roof, in the middle of empty rainforests. There was no practical necessity for this arrangement, and it re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Metcalf, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Temas:
Longhouses > Borneo > History.
Ethnicity > Borneo > History.
Community life > Borneo > History.
Longues maisons > Bornéo > Histoire.
Ethnicité > Bornéo > Histoire.
Communauté > Bornéo > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Antiquities
Commerce
Commerce > Social aspects
Community life
Ethnicity
Longhouses
Manners and customs
Politics and government
Borneo > Social life and customs.
Borneo > Antiquities.
Borneo > Politics and government.
Borneo > Commerce > Social aspects > History.
Borneo > Commerce > China.
China > Commerce > Borneo.
Brunei > Commerce > History.
Bornéo > Mœurs et coutumes.
Bornéo > Commerce > Aspect social > Histoire.
Bornéo > Commerce > Chine.
Borneo
Brunei
China
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The problem : ethnicity and community
  • pt. 1. Longhouses. Longhouses
  • Longhouse communities
  • The coming of the Brooke Raj
  • pt. 2. Longhouses and leaders. Aban Jau's career
  • Aban Jau's successors
  • pt. 3. Longhouse and trade. The sultan's fence
  • Premodern upriver trade
  • pt. 4. Longhouse populations. The linguistic data
  • Disease, slavery, assimilation, annihilation
  • pt. 5. Longhouses and ritual. The ritual consensus
  • The ritual operator
  • The impresarios of the ancestors
  • pt. 6. Longhouses and the state. Longhouses during the Raj
  • Longhouses after the Raj
  • Conclusion: The general and the particular.

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