Myth, history and modern cultural identity among hunter-gatherers: a Borneo case.

From: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | Date: March 1, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

This analysis of a recent manuscript by a leader of a forest nomadic group of Kalimantan shows a multi-staged manipulation of the historical tradition, in connection with ancient and modern, political, cultural, and religious factors, and examines internal contradictions due to the ongoing alteration of the mode of subsistence, from hunting-gathering to swidden agriculture.

1. INTRODUCTION

The island of Borneo has maintained until fairly recently a number of tropical rainforest hunting-gathering groups, generally referred to as Punan or Penan (though other local ethnonyms are found). ...

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