Iban Art: Sexual Selection and Severed Heads - Weaving, Sculpture, Tattooing and Other Arts of the Iban of Borneo.(Book review)

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Iban Art: Sexual Selection and Severed Heads--Weaving, Sculpture, Tattooing and Other Arts of the Iban of Borneo, by Michael Heppell, Limbang anak Melaka, and Enyan anak Usen (2005). Leiden/Amsterdam: C. Zwartenkot-Art Books/KIT Publishers, pp. 180, 55.00 [euro].

In this wonderfully illustrated and colorful book, Heppell brings together disparate strands of thought on art, war, and sexual competition and choice to create a general argument of why art, primarily weaving, became so elaborate in Iban society. The chapters run through Iban culture and history, cosmology, weaving, ...

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