Borneo Research Bulletin articles from January 2 2002

Borneo Research Bulletin archives from January 2 2002

Notes from the editor.(Editorial)
January 2, 2002... The present issue opens with two memorial sections. These mark the passing of two major figures in Borneo studies: Derek Freeman and Anthony Richards. Derek Freeman died at the age of 84 on 6 July 2001 in Canberra, Australia. His death...

Derek Freeman: 1916-2001.(Memorials)(Obituary)
January 2, 2002... Derek Freeman was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 16 August 1916. After studying philosophy and psychology at Victoria University College, he was introduced to anthropology in a graduate seminar taught by Ernest Beaglehole and was inspired...

Anthony John Noel Richards: 1914-2000.(Memorials)(Obituary)
January 2, 2002... Anthony Richards was born at Sheepscombe, Gloucestershire, on 3 December 1914 and later moved to France Lynch, where his father, Kenneth Keble Evan Richards, was Vicar. After "Prep" school near Chepstow he attended King's (Cathedral) School,...

Anthony Richards--remembrances.
January 2, 2002... [Editor's Note: The remembrances that follow, the first by Temenggong William Linang and the second by Dato Tra Zehnder, are excerpted from interviews conducted by Jayl Langub, Nicholas Bawing, and myself (Clifford Sather) on 19 February 2002...

Dato Tra Zehnder.
January 2, 2002... When I think of Richards, I always remember my first impression of him. He was conducting the police band early in the morning. I didn't know who he was then. I saw this European with curly hair; there he was in the morning. Every morning when...

Remembering Anthony Richards.
January 2, 2002... Anthony Richards was known to me and my family as "Tex" as he was to fellow undergraduates at Hertford College, Oxford. How he came by that nickname I do not know but he was probably given it at school and it followed him to university. ...

A.J.N. Richards: a brief autobiographical note, 1981.(Research Note)
January 2, 2002... I was an administrative officer and magistrate in Sarawak for 26 years, from 1938 to 1964. There was no formal training and we learned on the job from seniors and local officers and leaders. Our job as we saw it was to help the people in our...

Missionaries, mariners, and merchants: overlooked British travelers to West Borneo in the early nineteenth century.
January 2, 2002... Introduction At the beginning of the nineteenth century West Borneo (now West Kalimantan) was politically unstable. The rise of the sultanate of Pontianak, with Dutch support, had resulted in the takeover of Mempawah from the Bugis and the...

The "Dayak Kingdom" in West Kalimantan: earthly or spiritual?
January 2, 2002... We have previously commented (Wadley and Smith 2001) on Research Notes by Djuweng (1999) and Sellato (1999) which referred to the existence ofa Dayak "Kingdom of the Headwaters" or "Upriver" (Hulu Aiq: HA hereafter (1)) in the interior of...

Re-emergence of the Raja Hulu Aiq: some motives and impacts (1).
January 2, 2002... I last met the Raja Hulu Aiq (2) (RHA), or the "King of the Upriver," on 16 July 2001. I stopped and paid a personal visit to him when I returned from a spiritual homage to the Sacred Fountain (Pancur Keramat), located just next to his house in...

Contributions to Ngaju history, 1690-1942 *.
January 2, 2002... South Borneo (the Indonesian provinces of Kalimantan Tengah and Kalimantan Selatan) contains the settlement areas of the Ngaju Dayak. Long-term and intensive studies in ethnography and history have been carried out in these areas for a long...

Houses and social organization among the Bentian of East Kalimantan (1).
January 2, 2002... Introduction The Bentian are a small group of Dayaks who live in a relatively remote upriver area in the district (kabupaten) of West Kutai in the province of East Kalimantan, close to the border with Central Kalimantan, in Indonesian...

The mediated production of ethnicity and nationalism among the Iban of Sarawak (II), 1977-1997.
January 2, 2002... In the first installment of this two-part research note (Postill 2001), I retraced the early history of modern Iban media production in Sarawak from 1954 to 1976. I stressed the centrality of the Iban language to Radio Sarawak broadcasters and...

A short history of birds' nests management in the Niah caves (Sarawak).
January 2, 2002... Introduction The exploitation of birds' nests in Malaysia has a long history. Trade in birds' nests with China already existed at the start of the 17th century, when Dutch merchants began operating in the Malaysian and Indonesian region...

Seventh Biennial Meetings: Seventh Biennial International Conference of the Borneo Research Council: hosted by Universiti Malaysia Sabah.
January 2, 2002... The Borneo Research Council Seventh Biennial International Conference was held at Universiti Malaysia Sabah in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, from 15 to 18 July 2002. The conference was hosted by the university's School of Social Sciences, and held at...

The Derek Freeman papers in the Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego.
January 2, 2002... The personal papers of the late Derek Freeman, including correspondence from 1938 to the time of his death, field notes, and documents concerned chiefly with Samoa and the so-called Mead-Freeman controversy, but also covering other aspects of...

The AJN Richards Collection at the Centre for Academic Information Services (CAIS), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
January 2, 2002... The personal papers and much of the library of the late A.J.N. Richards were presented as a generous gift by the Richards family to the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). They now comprise a special reserve collection called the "AJN...

A.J.N. Richards photographs in the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak and Tun Jugah Foundation Libraries.
January 2, 2002... Among the materials presented by the Richards family to Sarawak is an extensive collection of photographs and negatives, the great majority taken by the late A.J.N. Richards himself during his years as an administrative officer in Sarawak, from...

The Bidayuh films of professor William R. Geddes.
January 2, 2002... Among William R. Geddes's lasting legacies to the ethnography of Borneo are the three excellent films he produced on various aspects of the Bidayuh culture. As I have received inquiries from time to time on the sources of these films, I thought...

The Syair Saribas project.
January 2, 2002... An old Malay text has recently come to light which may prove to be one of the most important sources for the history, genealogy and folkways of the Sarawak Malays. It may also reveal a good deal of information about the Malays' relations with...

A wooden figure used to take on human diseases shamanistic healing rituals of the Basap in East Kalimantan.
January 2, 2002... In January 2002 I accompanied a German student in ethnology, Christian Oesterheld, to the Basap area, on Mangkalihat Peninsula, in East Kalimantan. He stayed there nearly three months doing research. It was my fourth journey to the Basap since...

Regional news.(Borneo News)
January 2, 2002... Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak Volume 4 is in its final stages of editing and will be ready for publication in 2002. The volume will contain 6 families: Aquiforliaceae (S. Andrews), Ebenaceae (F.S.P.Ng), Lecythidaceae (M. Pinard), Oleaceae (R....

Kalimantan news.(Borneo News)
January 2, 2002... Mr. J.W.F. Silk and Ms. S. Sevilla (Leiden) studied the indicator role of Macaranga and Mallotus species for forest disturbance in Kalimantan. Silk continued his PhD studies on the biodiversity of Mallotus sect. Hancea, Polyadenia, and...

Sabah news.(Borneo News)
January 2, 2002... Borneo Collection seeks volunteers. The Borneensis Collection is a young and ambitious natural history museum maintained by the Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation at Universiti Malaysia Sabah. The object of Borneensis is to develop...

Sarawak news.(Borneo News)
January 2, 2002... The Borneo Project website (http://www.earthisland.org/borneo) was recently overhauled, and now has many new features and sections. One new feature is a gallery section, displaying over 50 pictures of Sarawak in the 1960s. The pictures come...

Changing Borders and Identities in the Kelabit Highlands: Anthropological Reflections on Growing up in a Kelabit Village near the International Border.(Book Review)
January 2, 2002... Poline Bala. Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia: Dayak Studies Contemporary Society Series, No. 1, The Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Malaysia Sarawak, 2002, 142 pp., RM25.00, USD8.00, AUD13.00, paper. Part memoir, part...

Judith Heimann: the Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and his Remarkable Life.(Book Review)
January 2, 2002... Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. 465 pages. US$26.95. ISBN 0-8248-2199-8. Tom Harrisson, even twenty-five years after his death, continues to evoke strong emotions from Sarawakians and Old Sarawak Hands. The chief requirement,...

Vincent Nijman. Forest (and) Primates, Conservation and ecology of the endemic primates of Java and Borneo.(Book Review)
January 2, 2002... Tropenbos-Kalimantan Series 5. Tropenbos International, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 2002, ISBN 90-5113-052-X, iv + 232, tables and figures, 4 sections, 13 chapters, summaries in Indonesian. This book will certainly be useful to anyone...

Vernon L. Porritt. Operation Hammer: Enforced Resettlement in Sarawak in 1965.(Book Review)
January 2, 2002... Special Issue, 2000, Hull: University of Hull, Centre for South-East Asian Studies. 1 x plus 160 pages, 16 plates in black and white, two maps, 12 Appendices and index. Price: 10 [pounds sterling], plus postage, UK = 2 [pounds sterling];...

D.H. Robinson, A Mild Man In Borneo.(Book Review)
January 2, 2002... Kuehing, Sarawak, The Author, 2002, pp. 298. [Available from the author, Les Arnauds, St Foy le Petit, 47120 Duras, Lot-en-Garonne, France] Published reminiscences of British colonial officers from Sarawak are surprisingly few. I can only...

Alexander, Jennifer, 2000, From "accompanying spouse" to "dutiful daughter": fieldwork roles in Sri Lanka, Java and Sarawak.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
January 2, 2002... The Asia Pacifw Journal of Anthropology. 1(1): 14-23. This contribution discusses the fieldwork experiences of the author in Sri Lanka, Kebumen (Central Java), and Rejang (Sarawak, Malaysia). On the first trip, to Sri Lanka, she accompanied...

Atje, Raymond, Linda Christanty, Tubagus Feridhanusetyawan, and Kurnya Roesad, 2001, Hutan sebagai asset strategis.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
January 2, 2002... Analisis CSIS, 30(2): 124-136. Forests constitute an important natural resource for the Indonesian economy. However, it seems that this form of exploitation is not sustainable in the long term. According to recent estimates, Indonesia's...

Barr, Christopher, 2001, Politik ekonomi serat kayu, keuangan, dan utan dalam industri pulp dan kertas Indonesia.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
January 2, 2002... Analisis CSIS, 30(2): 202-219. This article examines the factors that have led Indonesian pulp producers to make large-scale investments in processing facilities without first securing a legal and sustainable raw material supply. It is...

Chung, Arthur Y.C., Chey Vun Khen, Sining Unchi and Momin Binti, 2002, Edible insects and entomophagy in Sabah, Malaysia.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
January 2, 2002... Malayan Nature Journal, 56 (2): 131-144. More than 50 species of edible insects from 11 orders were documented from Sabah, Malaysia. The most common insect group taken as food was honeybee brood, followed by grasshoppers and sago grubs. The...

Cranbrook, Earl of, 2000, Northern Borneo environment of the past 40,000 years: archaeological evidence.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
January 2, 2002... Sarawak Museum Journal, 55, no. 76: 61-149. The past 40,000 years cover the close of the last and most severe of the Pleistocene glaciations and the climatic reversal of the Holocene. Research on past climates in the tropics has been much...

Cranbrook, Earl of, 2000, Quaternary mammal fossils from Borneo.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
January 2, 2002... Sarawak Museum Journal, 55, no. 76: 216-233. The basis for this article consists of two fossils bought in Kuching, but for which the provenance is not exactly known. Based on the evidence provided by adherent particles of matrix, they...

Hawkins, Mary, 2000, Becoming Banjar: identity and ethnicity in South Kalimantan, Indonesia.(Abstract)
January 2, 2002... The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 1 (1): 24-36. In the eyes of foreign observers, Borneo has mainly been seen as the land of the Dayaks. The Banjar, or "coastal Malays" who make up the vast majority of the inhabitants of southern...

Helliwell, Christine, 2000, Restoring the balance: "marriage exchange" in a Borneo community.(Abstract)
January 2, 2002... The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 1(1) :37-53. This paper examines the practice of the transfer of wealth (buis) upon marriage among the Gerai, a Dayak community of the northern part of the Ketapang regency in West Kalimantan. The...

Hoare, Alison L., 2001. Cooking the Wild: the role of the Lundayeh of the Ulu Padas (Sabah, Malaysia) in managing forest foods and shaping the landscape.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
January 2, 2002... PhD dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Kent at Canterbury. This thesis provides an account of the Lundayeh subsistence system as found in the villages of Long Pasia and Long Mio, situated in the Ulu Padas, Sabah. The...

Hofer, Anke Maria, 2000, Observations on abundance and diet of the Sunbeam Snake "Xenopeltis unicolor" in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
January 2, 2002... Sarawak Museum Journal, 55, no. 76: 255-258. This article is a brief report of a 1996 field survey in West Kalimantan to examine the herpetofaunal community, concentrating especially on the Sunbeam Snake (Xenopeltis unicolor), a...

Marzali, Amri, 2001, Kekerasan sosial di Kalimantan: sebuah analisis antropologi sosiokultural.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
January 2, 2002... Analisis CSIS, 30(3): 269-290. In 1999 there had already been troubles between the Dayaks and Madurese immigrants in West Kalimantan, and then in 2001 all hell broke loose in Central Kalimantan as people's pent-up frustrations were...

Micski, Jozsef, 2001, Interaksi antara pemerintah dan donor di sektor kehutanan.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
January 2, 2002... Analisis CSIS, 30(2): 195-201. The article describes the process of institutionalizing government-donor cooperation in developing and implementing an integrated national forest program and to enhance inter-agency cooperation. Three bodies...

Postill, John, 2000, Borneo Again: Media, Social Life and Nation-Building among the Iban of Malaysian Borneo.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
January 2, 2002... This thesis studies the social uses of modern media (especially radio, television, print media, clocks, and public-address systems) among the Iban of Sarawak in relation to nation-building efforts in late 20th century Malaysia. It is intended...

Rousseau, Jerome, 2001, Hereditary stratification in middle-range societies.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
January 2, 2002... Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 7(1): 117-131 The tension between equality and inequality is a crucial factor in the variety and evolution of social systems. State-information is one aspect of this and in this context the...

Syaukani H.R., 2001, Pelaksanaan desentralisasi di bidang kehutanan dalam rangka pengelolaan hutan lestari di kabupaten Kutai Kertanagara.(Abstract)(Brief Article)
January 2, 2002... Analisis CSIS, 30(2): 146-155. Since the passing of Acts no. 22/1999 and 25/1999, Indonesia has taken a positive step on the road towards decentralization, giving autonomous regions more chance to manage their own resources. In this essay...

Wadley, Reed L., 2002, Trouble on the frontier: Dutch-Brooke relations and Iban rebellion in the West Borneo Borderlands (1841-1886).(Abstract)(Book Review)
January 2, 2002... Modern Asian Studies, 35(1): 623-644. Borders are usually artificial constructions cutting through existing well-established networks of communications, trade, common traditions, and strong kinship ties. In this essay the author...

Bibliography.(Bibliography)
January 2, 2002... A. Zainal Abidin and Abdullah Salleh 2002 Life in the Malay Kampongs of Kuching, fifty years ago. Nusantara Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Kota Samarahan: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. Adam, J.H. and B. Paulus 2000 The...