Borneo Research Bulletin articles from January 1 2004

Borneo Research Bulletin archives from January 1 2004

HGA--Hamburger Gesellschaft fur Austronesistik.(services)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Since its formation in 2001, the HGA--Hamburger Gesellschaft fur Austronesistik or Hamburg Society for Austronesian Studies--has been actively supporting the studies on the Austronesian areas. HGA aims to establish a forum for those engaged...

ESSEAN.(REGIONAL NEWS)
January 1, 2004... The ESSEAN (European Students' Southeast Asia Network) in cooperation with HGA (Hamburg Society for Austronesian Studies) and the Asia-Africa-Institute of the University of Hamburg presented its initial Indonesia Forum in the ESSEAN's...

In Indonesia, botanical explorations by the Herbarium Bogoriense are underway in various areas.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... In Indonesia, botanical explorations by the Herbarium Bogoriense are underway in various areas. These include Kalimantan, where exploration has been focused primarily on the Muller Nature Reserve (Bukit Batikap, Sapat Hawung, Mt. Lumut). The...

Christian Oesterheld.(KALIMANTAN NEWS)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Christian Oesterheld presented a paper entitled "Case Study III--Narratives In-between Riots: Mapping the 'Emics' of Ethnic Conflict in Kalimantan" at the Indonesia Forum "New Perspectives for Research on Violence in Indonesia" in the ESSEAN's...

Museum of Ethnology.(KALIMANTAN NEWS)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Dr. Jani Kuhnt-Saptodewo has taken up a new appointment in Vienna as curator of the Indonesian, Malaysian, and the Philippines collections at the Museum of Ethnology. Her new address is: Museum far Volkerkunde A-1010 Wien--Neue Burg...

Fausto Barlocco.(graduate student conducts Ph.D. research )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Fausto Barlocco, a graduate student in the Social Sciences Department, University of Loughborough, UK, is planning to carry out Ph.D. research aimed at studying the impact of media on the Kadazan/Dusun population of Sabah, particularly focusing...

International Conference on Bajau/Sama Communities 2004 (ICBC): 21-23 July, 2004, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.(SABAH NEWS)
January 1, 2004... An International Conference on Bajau/Sama Communities was held on the Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) campus, in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, on 21-23 July 2004. The conference was part of a program of special events held to celebrate the...

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS).(SARAWAK NEWS)
January 1, 2004... Professor Dimbab Ngidang has been appointed to the Dayak Chair at the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Kota Samarahan, while Dr. James Chin has been appointed as Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies. Jayl Langub has retired from...

Gonner, Christian 2002. A Forest Tribe of Borneo: Resource Use among the Dayak Benuaq.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Gonner, Christian 2002. A Forest Tribe of Borneo: Resource Use among the Dayak Benuaq. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd. ISBN: 81-246-0193-3. 366 pages, including index and appendices. A Forest Tribe of Borneo is the third volume in a...

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to the Year 2000.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to the Year 2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with the British Academy. Edited by H. C. G. Matthew (1992-1999) and Brian Harrison (2000-2004). Sixty volumes....

Monica Janowski. The Forest, Source of Life: The Kelabit of Sarawak.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Monica Janowski. The Forest, Source of Life: the Kelabit of Sarawak. London: British Museum Occasional Paper No 143, November 2003; hbk; 154pp; 25.00 [pounds sterling]. The Forest, Source of Life is a beautiful book that deserves a place...

Peter Metcalf, They Lie, We Lie: Getting on With Anthropology.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Peter Metealf, They Lie, We Lie: Getting on With Anthropology, London and New York: Routledge, 2002, 155 p. The title of this elegantly written book about Peter Metcalf's fieldwork among the longhouse-dwelling Berawan of northern central...

Bob Reece, The White Rajahs of Sarawak, a Borneo Dynasty.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Bob Reece, The White Rajahs of Sarawak, a Borneo Dynasty. Archipelago Press: Singapore, 2004, 144 pages. "What good is a book without pictures?" complained Alice. There are plenty of pictures in Bob Reece's new history of the three Rajah...

Vernon L. Porritt, The Rise and Fall of Communism in Sarawak, 1940-1990.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Vernon L. Porritt, The Rise and Fall of Communism in Sarawak, 1940-1990. Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2004. ISBN 876924276. 361 pp. Map, illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index. Dr. Porritt has done a distinct service to...

Otto Steinmayer. Jalai Jako' Iban. A Basic Grammar of the Iban Language of Sarawak, 1999.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Otto Steinmayer. Jalai Jako' lban. A Basic Grammar of the Iban Language of Sarawak, 1999. Kuehing, Sarawak: Klasik Publishing House. 138pp, Appendices, Index. Illustrations by Augustine Anggat Ganjing. Iban is lexically the best documented...

Roger Lewis, Anthony Burgess. London: Faber and Faber, 2002.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Roger Lewis, Anthony Burgess. London: Faber and Faber, 2002. Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) is probably best-known for A Clockwork Orange (1962), subsequently made into a film directed by Stanley Kubrik (1971). An Education Officer in Malaya...

Ada Pryer, A Decade in Borneo.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Ada Pryer, A Decade in Borneo. Susan Morgan, editor. The Literature of Travel, Exploration and Empire Series. London and New York: Leicester University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-7185-0197-7, pp. viii + 183. A Decade in Borneo was first published...

Acts of Integration, Expressions of Faith: Madness, Death and Ritual in Melanau Ontology.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Appleton, Ann, 2004, Acts of Integration, Expressions of Faith: Madness, Death and Ritual in Melanau Ontology, Ph.D. thesis in Social Anthropology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand. Longitudinal medical research studies...

Soil Erosion and Slope in Primary and Selectivity Logged Rain Forest in Danum Valley, Malaysia.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Clarke, M. A., 2003, Soil Erosion and Slope in Primary and Selectivity Logged Rain Forest in Danum Valley, Malaysia. Ph.D. thesis (Forestry). University of Wales at Swansea. Slopewash, a combination of rainsplash and overland flow erosion,...

Becoming Christian and Dayak: a Study of Christian Conversion among Dayaks in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Connolly, Jennifer, 2004, Becoming Christian and Dayak: A Study of Christian Conversion among Dayaks in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Ph.D. thesis (Cultural Anthropology). New School University. This dissertation explores the social impact...

The Function of Adult Male Long Calls in Wild Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) (Indonesia).(ABSTRACTS)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Delgado, Roberto Antonio, Jr., 2003, The Function of Adult Male Long Calls in Wild Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) (Indonesia). Ph.D. thesis (Primatology), Duke University. This study investigated the signal content and function of adult male...

Chronicle of a Foreseeable Tragedy: Birds' Nests Management in the Niah Caves (Sarawak).(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Gausset, Quentin, 2004, Chronicle of a Foreseeable Tragedy: Birds' Nests Management in the Niah Caves (Sarawak), Human Ecology, Vol. 32, (4): 487-507. The number of birds' nests harvested in the Niah caves today is only a fraction of what...

The Effects of Land Use Changes on Forest Fires in Major Islands of Indonesia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Lumban-Tobing, Pago Leonardo, 2004, The Effects of Land Use Changes on Forest Fires in Major Islands of Indonesia. Ph.D. thesis (Forest Ecology). Corvallis: Oregon State University. The study examines the effect of forest clearance on fire...

Sacred Forest, Hunting, and Conservation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Wadley, Reed L., and Carol J. Pierce Colfer, 2004, Sacred Forest, Hunting, and Conservation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Human Ecology 32 (3): 313-338. In a number of places, sacred forest sites play an important role in conservation and...

Punitive Expeditions and Divine Revenge: Oral and Colonial Histories of Rebellion and Pacification in Western Borneo, 1886-1902.(ABSTRACTS)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Wadley, Reed L., 2004, Punitive Expeditions and Divine Revenge: Oral and Colonial Histories of Rebellion and Pacification in Western Borneo, 1886-1902. Ethnohistory 51 (3): 609-636. Different accounts are presented of two events in the...

Borneo bibliography 2004.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2004... AVM Horton Abdul Hakim Almdny, Salim Said and M. A. M. Soom 2002a Evaluation of Nitrate Transport to Underground Environment as Affected by Water-table Depths. Paper presented at the second World Engineering Congress, Kuching, 22 - 25 July...

ESSEAN--European Students' Southeast Asia Network.(REGIONAL NEWS)
January 1, 2004... ESSEAN--European Students' Southeast Asia Network--wants to connect European students with an academic interest in Southeast Asia. As a web-based community, ESSEAN intends to encourage students to discuss, exchange ideas and support each other...

New Year Honours 2005.(Dr. Elizabeth Lesley Bennett)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Dr. Elizabeth Lesley Bennett was appointed MBE in the UK New Year Honours 2005 "for services to wildlife conservation in Malaysia" (Daily Telegraph, London, Friday 31 December 2004:33).

Dr. P.C. van Welzen.(REGIONAL NEWS)
January 1, 2004... Dr. P.C. van Welzen (Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Leiden) has prepared sites on the internet: www-nationaalherbarium-nl/macmalborneo/index.htm--with descriptions of all Bornean species of Macaranga and Mallotus, a very user-friendly key to...

Conference announcement.(ANNOUNCEMENTS)
January 1, 2004... The 1st International Harvest Conference & Festival (IHCF), 16th-19th August 2005, is a coming together of countries represented by experts and interested parties in cultural anthropology and its related fields to present conference papers and...

Revival of Borneo Discussion List.(ANNOUNCEMENTS)
January 1, 2004... At the conference on West Borneo Languages, held from 31 January to 2 February 2005 at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in Bangi, I accepted responsibility for reconstituting the internet Borneo Discussion List, which in its earlier incarnation...

Dissertations on Borneo.
January 1, 2004... For the past several years we have been developing an online bibliography of doctoral dissertations on Borneo. The project was initiated on behalf of the Borneo Research Council following discussions about how to make information...

Brief communications: a letter from Lundu.
January 1, 2004... 10 February 2005 Rain. Wisdom has it that Chinese New Year is always wet. Yesterday when the new moon rose with the sun we enjoyed surprise dry weather, a cool, breezy day with decorative baroque-dessert clouds. This second day tradition...

Protagonist of paradise: the life, death, and legacy of Bruno Manser.(Stimmen aus dem Regenwald. Zeugnisse eines bedrohten Volkes (Voices from the Rainforest. Testimonies of a Threatened People))(Tagebucher aus dem Regenwald (Diaries from the Rainforest). )(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Bruno Manser, Stimmen aus dem Regenwald. Zeugnisse eines bedrohten Volkes (Voices from the Rainforest. Testimonies of a Threatened People). Bern: Zytglogge Verlag, with World Wildlife Fund, 1992. 304 pp. ISBN 3-7296-0386-8. Bruno Manser,...

Borders of kinship and ethnicity: cross-border relations between the Kelalan Valley, Sarawak, and the Bawan Valley, East Kalimantan.
January 1, 2004... Introduction The paper that follows is an ethnographic study of the socio-cultural and economic links that connect people inhabiting a contiguous highland region of Sarawak, Malaysia and East Kalimantan, Indonesia. (1) These people, while...

The mystery of the twin masks on megaliths at Long Pulung in East Kalimantan: prehistoric wax modeling molds for casting bronze moko drums? An interpretative attempt.
January 1, 2004... Introduction The great alignment of prehistoric urn dolmens at the site of Long Pulung hosts two exceptional megaliths with as yet uninterpreted designs. I would describe the main sculptures on these megaliths as stylized "anthropomorphic...

Hampatongs in the daily life of the Ngaju Dayaks.
January 1, 2004... Introduction The word Dayak means "dwellers of the hinterland." It generally refers to the indigenous (non-Malay, non-Chinese) peoples of Indonesian Borneo who live along the banks of the Barito, Kahayan, Katingan, Kapuas, Mentaya, and...

A brief reply.(RESEARCH NOTES)(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... First, I acknowledge that the details given by Herwig Zahorka in his response to my essay complement his 2001 article on several points, especially on the recent history of the Orang Darat. However, on other questions, I would make the...

Response to Antonio Guerreiro.(on using the cave as a permanent residence)
January 1, 2004... Antonio J. Guerreiro tries in a somewhat clumsy way to compare my brief report in BRB 2001 with the well-known, ridiculous Tasaday scoop "discovered" in the Philippines. A clarifying response is therefore called for. Guerreiro wrote,...

A rejoinder to Herwig Zahorka's "Basap cave dwellers in Mangkalihat" and some additional notes on the Basap and resettlement in East Kalimantan.
January 1, 2004... The title of the short article by H. Zahorka published in the 2001 issue of the Borneo Research Bulletin (Zahorka 2001b: 140-147) was surprising, as during my recent visit to the same community I did not meet any genuine "cave dwellers." In...

Turbulent times in Sarawak: the end of expatriate influence and the struggle for power over and within the state.(RESEARCH NOTES)
January 1, 2004... Expatriate influence in the Sarawak State Government came to an abrupt end on 30 July 1966. This was some three years after Sarawak became part of the Federation of Malaysia. Prior to becoming part of Malaysia, Sarawak had been a British colony...

Captain Burn and associates: British intelligence-gathering, trade, and litigation in Borneo and beyond during the early nineteenth century.
January 1, 2004... Introduction John Leyden's well-known "Sketch of Borneo" (Leyden 1811) (1) included a large amount of information that had been supplied to T. S. Raffles from Pontianak by "Mr. J. Burn." This information has been used by many historians of...

Ibanic languages in Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia: exploring nomenclature, distribution and characteristics.(RESEARCH NOTES)
January 1, 2004... Introduction Iban, spoken as a first language by hundreds of thousands of people in Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah and western Kalimantan and as a second language by scores of thousands more, (1) has long been an object of scholarly research. For...

Negara Brunei Darussalam: obituaries 2004.(MEMORIALS)(Obituary)
January 1, 2004... Introduction The obituaries appearing here deal not only with Bruneians, but also with foreigners who have had some connection with the sultanate. The domestic death roll includes two ceteria, one distinguished diplomat, a retired air...

Notes from the editor.(Editorial)
January 1, 2004... In a departure from past practice, A.V.M. Horton opens this issue with an extended, collective memorial for a number of persons, both Bruneians and others whose lives in some important way involved Brunei Darussalam and whose deaths occurred...