Iranun and Balangingi: globalization, maritime raiding and the birth of ethnicity. (Research Notes).

From: Borneo Research Bulletin | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: Warren, James Francis | Copyright information

Introduction: An Ethnohistorical Enigma

The aim of this paper is to explore ethnic, cultural, and material changes in the transformative history of oceans and seas, commodities and populations, mariners and ships, and raiders and refugees in Southeast Asia, with particular reference to the Sulu-Mindanao region, or the "Sulu Zone" (Warren 1998a: 9-13; 198]: xix-xxvi). The oceans and seas of Asia, East by South, from Canton to Makassar, and from Singapore to the Bird's Hea...

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