Borneo Research Bulletin articles from January 1 2005

Borneo Research Bulletin archives from January 1 2005

Notes from the editor.(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... The appearance of Volume 36 represents something of a milestone for your Editor. This is the tenth volume of the BRB that I have edited, not counting a brief stint as special editor of a single issue (Volume 7, no. 2, "Traditional States of...

The Eighth Biennial BRC Conference, 2006.
January 1, 2005... After a hiatus of four years, the BRC is pleased to announce that the Eighth Biennial Conference of the Borneo Research Council for 2006 will take place in Kuching, Sarawak, over a two-day period, July 31-August 1. The conference is being...

Corrections.(Correction notice)
January 1, 2005... A regrettable omission, or, more precisely, a partial transposition of a paragraph of text, occurred in Volume 33 (2002) in the "Remembrances" section for the late Anthony Richards. This occurred in the interview of Temenggong William Linang...

Negara Brunei Darussalam: obituaries 2005.(MEMORIALS)
January 1, 2005... Introduction This memorial comprises obituaries of Bruneians or of persons having associations with the sultanate. The domestic list includes nine persons, most notably one of the ceteria empat (a very-high ranking nobleman) and one of the...

Resource claims between tradition and modernity: masyarakat adat strategies in Mului (Kalimantan Timur).
January 1, 2005... Since the introduction of administrative and fiscal decentralization in 1999 and their implementation in January 2001 through law 22/1999 and law 25/1999 respectively, Indonesian local politics have been undergoing thorough revisions. (1)...

Anthony Richards and the search for Lawai: myths, maps and history.
January 1, 2005... Introduction I noticed that the bibliography appended to the end of the late Anthony Richards memorial (Borneo Research Bulletin 33:25-26) omitted his short paper "Lawai," published in the Brunei Museum Journal in 1978. (1) Written in an...

From British military intelligence to financial secretary of Sarawak: John Pike 1945-1967.(Biography)
January 1, 2005... After raiders from Indonesian Kalimantan killed the Chief Minister's brother on 27 June 1965, retribution fell on the local Chinese, although Special Branch investigations indicated they had not been directly involved in the raid on the 18th...

The diary of a district officer: Alastair Morrison's 1953 trip to the Kelabit Highlands.
January 1, 2005... Introduction In 1953, Alastair Morrison, then acting District Officer for the Baram, traveled to the Kelabit Highlands along with his wife, photographer Hedda Morrison, and an ever-changing entourage of "coolie" porters and guides. This...

Making tactile: ganti diri figures and the magic of concreteness among the Luangan Dayaks.
January 1, 2005... Dewi Itak Silu Malik and Dewa Kakah Embung Mele were surprised to watch the work of God the Almighty. There was not one of them [of the earthen figures that God had made] which had turned into a real human being, destined to inhabit the earth...

Words, poetics, and the disclosure of meaning in Saribas Iban healing rituals (1).
January 1, 2005... Introduction My interest in this paper is with the use of words in rituals. In part, I am concerned with indigenous notions regarding language, that is to say, with what we might call the "ethnosemantics" that informs the understandings...

Paradoxical outcomes of national schooling in the borderland of West Kalimantan, Indonesia: the case of the Iban.
January 1, 2005... Introduction Marginal populations like the borderland Iban often do not primarily identify with the state in which they live. Identities derived from regional and local associations are usually more significant in people's daily...

Evolving a development framework for the Sama Dilaut in an urban center in the Southern Philippines (1).
January 1, 2005... Introduction Comprising more than 7,000 islands, the Philippines is home to numerous groups of indigenous peoples or cultural communities, distinct from other Filipinos, who are known to adhere to their own ways of life and culture....

After the Sarawak Law: evolutionary biology in Borneo since 1855.
January 1, 2005... In February 1855, while taking a rainy season break from his insect collecting at Rajah James Brooke's bungalow in Santubong, English naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace penned a short paper entitled "On the Law Which Has Regulated the...

Further notes on the historiography of British Borneo.
January 1, 2005... Some thirty years ago I prepared "Some Notes on the Historiography of British Borneo," which were included in the Festschrift for D. C. E. Hall, Southeast Asian History and Historiography, edited by C. D. Cowan and O. W. Wolters (1976). Not all...

Letter from Lundu: 12 February 2006.(BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS)
January 1, 2005... The bridge is finished. It's been open half a year and we've forgotten the ferries. Sure took time. In 1996--before an election--the entire Sarawak government showed up and swore we would have a bridge in a year. Then they went away. Six...

Comments on "Borders of Kinship and Ethnicity: Cross-Border Relations between the Kelalan Valley, Sarawak, and the Bawan Valley, East Kalimantan" by I Ketut Ardhana, Jayl Langub, and Daniel Chew (2004), BRB.(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2005... For me as a former DO Lawas from 1951 to 1954, [it was an] absolutely fascinating article about Cross-Border Relations between the Kelalan and Bawan valleys. I was more than a little involved in those relations and went to visit my opposite...

Borneo-Kalimantan Inter-University Conference on "Social Transformation in Coastal Communities of Borneo" was held August 29-30, 2005, at the Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Kota Samarahan.(REGIONAL NEWS)
January 1, 2005... Borneo-Kalimantan Inter-University Conference on "Social Transformation in Coastal Communities of Borneo" was held August 29-30, 2005, at the Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Kota Samarahan. ...

Oliver Venz.(KALIMANTAN NEWS)
January 1, 2005... Oliver Venz, a graduate student in social anthropology and linguistics at the Freie Universitat and Technische Universitat of Berlin, Germany, is currently (since Dec 2004) carrying out research in East Kalimantan (Kutai Barat) aimed at...

National Conference on Indigenous Peoples, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, 6-7 December 2005.(SABAH NEWS)(Conference news)
January 1, 2005... On 6-7 December 2005, the Kadazandusun Chair, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan, together with the School of Social Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, organized a 2-day national conference entitled Communities, Cultures and Change in...

UNIMAS workshop: reminiscences of Sarawak administrators about events during the transitional period from colonial rule to Malaysia.(SARAWAK NEWS)
January 1, 2005... A two-day workshop, organized by the Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, was held on November 10-11, 2005, and brought together retired pioneer senior Sarawak administrators so that they might share their...

Ooi Keat Gin, Editor: Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia from Angkor Wat to East Timor.
January 1, 2005... Ooi Keat Gin, Editor: Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia from Angkor Wat to East Timor. Santa Barbara, CA, USA: ABC-CLIO, 2004, ISBN 1-576-7-770-5 (hardcover: alk. paper); 1-57607-771-3 (e-book), xxiv + 1790, maps, appendices, index, 3...

S. Bodegom, P. B. Pelser and P. J. A. Kessler, Seedlings of Secondary Forest Tree Species of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Semai-Semai Pohon Hutan Sekundair di Kalimantan Timur, Indonesia.(Book review)
January 1, 2005... S. Bodegom, P. B. Pelser and P. J. A. Kessler, Seedlings of Secondary Forest Tree Species of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Semai-Semai Pohon Hutan Sekundair di Kalimantan Timur, Indonesia. Leiden: Tropenbos--Kalimantan Series 1, 1999, ISBN...

Paul J. A. Kessler and Kade Sidiyasa, Pohon-pohon Hutan Kalimantan Timur. Pedoman mengenal 280 jenis pohon pilihan di daerah Balikpapan-Samarinda.(Book review)
January 1, 2005... Paul J. A. Kessler and Kade Sidiyasa, Pohon-pohon Hutan Kalimantan Timur. Pedoman mengenal 280 jenis pohon pilihan di daerah Balikpapan-Samarinda. Leiden: Tropenhos--Kalimantan Series 2, 1999, ISBN 90-5113-036-8, 472 pp. The second volume...

Paul J. A. Kessler, editor, Secondary Forest Trees of Kalimantan, Indonesia. A Manual to 300 Selected Species.(Book review)
January 1, 2005... Paul J. A. Kessler, editor, Secondary Forest Trees of Kalimantan, Indonesia. A Manual to 300 Selected Species. Leiden: Tropenbos--Kalimantan Series 3, 2000, ISBN 90-5113-044-9, 404 pp. Secondary Forest Trees of Kalimantan is the third...

J. W. F. Slik, Macaranga and Mallotus (Euphorbiaceae) as Indicators for Disturbance in the Lowland Dipterocarp Forests of East Kalimantan.(Book review)
January 1, 2005... J. W. F. Slik, Macaranga and Mallotus (Euphorbiaceae) as Indicators for Disturbance in the Lowland Dipterocarp Forests of East Kalimantan. Leiden: Tropenbos--Kalimantan Series 4, 2000, ISBN 90-5113-045-7, 224 pp. This fourth volume in the...

Wil de Jong, Forest Products and Local Forest Management in West Kalimantan, Indonesia: Implications for Conservation and Development.
January 1, 2005... Wil de Jong, Forest Products and Local Forest Management in West Kalimantan, Indonesia: Implications for Conservation and Development. Leiden: Tropenbos--Kalimantan Series 6, 2002, ISBN 90-5113-056-2, 120 pp. In this sixth volume of the...

Aldrianto Priadjati, Dipterocarpaceae: Forest Fires and Forest Recovery.(Book review)
January 1, 2005... Aldrianto Priadjati, Dipterocarpaceae: Forest Fires and Forest Recovery. Tropenbos--Kalimantan Series 2002, ISBN 90-5113-062-7, 214 pp. Dr. Priadjati carried out studies on the effects of forest fires in Kalimantan as part of his Ph.D....

Kenneth Sillander, Acting Authoritatively: How Authority is Expressed Through Social Action among the Bentian of Indonesian Borneo.(Book review)
January 1, 2005... Kenneth Sillander, Acting Authoritatively: How Authority is Expressed Through Social Action among the Bentian of Indonesian Borneo. Swedish School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, SSKH Skrifter 17, 2004, x + 388, maps, figures,...

K. Alexander Adelaar (with assistance of Pak Virus Kaslem), 2005, Salako or Badamea. Sketch Grammar, Texts and Lexicon of a Kanayatn Dialect in West Borneo.
January 1, 2005... K. Alexander Adelaar (with assistance of Pak Virus Kaslem), 2005, Salako or Badamea. Sketch Grammar, Texts and Lexicon of a Kanayatn Dialect in West Borneo. (Frankfurter Forschungen zu Stidostasien 2). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, viii, 328...

Traude Gavin, Iban Ritual Textiles.(Book review)
January 1, 2005... Traude Gavin, Iban Ritual Textiles. Leiden: KITLV Press. 2003, 356 pp. ISBN 90-6718-202-8, Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 205. This publication makes available to a larger public the material...

Alex C. Castles, The Constitutional and Legal History of Sarawak: Documents and Commentaries.(Book review)
January 1, 2005... Alex C. Castles, The Constitutional and Legal History of Sarawak: Documents and Commentaries. Volume I. People's Law-Making and Brooke Rule, Kuching: Persatuan Sejarah Malaysia Cawangan Sarawak, 2003. 294pp. Professor Alex Castles was a...

Brian Walpole, My War: 'Life is for Living'.(Book review)
January 1, 2005... Brian Walpole, My War: 'Life is for Living', Sydney: ABC Books, 2004. A few months after the appearance of my book Masa Jepun: The Japanese in Sarawak 1941-1946 in 1998, I received a furious letter from a certain Brian Walpole demanding...

Andrew Biswell, The Real Life of Anthony Burgess [1917-1993].(Book review)
January 1, 2005... Andrew Biswell, The Real Life of Anthony Burgess [1917-1993]. London: Picador, 2005. ISBN 0-330-48170-3. x + 434pp. Plates, bibliography, index. Hardback, 20.00 [pounds sterling]. It was predicted in the Borneo Research Bulletin 2004 (page...

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology: 2005, Frontiers, Sovereignty, and Marital Tactics: Comparisons from the Borneo Highlands and the Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle.(ABSTRACTS)
January 1, 2005... 2005, Frontiers, Sovereignty, and Marital Tactics: Comparisons from the Borneo Highlands and the Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle. 6(1), April:1-17 This article considers transnational relationships between men and women from...

Asian Perspectives: Journal of Archaeology for Asia & the Pacific: The Archaeology of Foraging and Farming at Niah Cave, Sarawak.(ABSTRACTS)
January 1, 2005... Asian Perspectives: Journal of Archaeology for Asia & the Pacific: 2005, The Archaeology of Foraging and Farming at Niah Cave, Sarawak. Vol. 44, Issue 1, 90-106. This article focuses on matters related to the archaeology of foraging and...

Asian Perspectives: Journal of Archaeology for Asia & the Pacific: The Case for Rainforest Foragers: The Starch Record at Niah Cave, Sarawak.(ABSTRACTS)(Brief article)
January 1, 2005... 2005, The Case for Rainforest Foragers: The Starch Record at Niah Cave, Sarawak. Asian Perspectives: Journal of Archaeology for Asia & the Pacific, Vol. 44, Issue 1, 56-72. A study of preserved starch grains from sedimentary sequences at...

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment: Farmers' Strategies for Managing Acid Upland Soils in Southeast Asia: An Evolutionary Perspective.(ABSTRACTS)
January 1, 2005... 2005, Farmers' Strategies for Managing Acid Upland Soils in Southeast Asia: An Evolutionary Perspective. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Vol. 106, Issue 1, 69-87 The acid soils of the uplands of Southeast Asia have resisted...

Diploma thesis: The Long Calls of Wild Male Orangutans: A Phylogenetic Approach.(ABSTRACTS)
January 1, 2005... 2004, The Long Calls of Wild Male Orangutans: A Phylogenetic Approach. Diploma thesis, Zoological Institute, Tierarztliche Hochschule Hannover, 74 pp. Although several genetic, molecular, and morphological studies were carried out to...

Asian Perspectives: Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific: Past Human Activity and Geomorphological Change in a Guano-Rich Tropical Cave Mouth: Initial Interpretations of the Late Quaternary Succession in the Great Cave of Niah, Sarawak.(ABSTRACTS)
January 1, 2005... 2005, Past Human Activity and Geomorphological Change in a Guano-Rich Tropical Cave Mouth: Initial Interpretations of the Late Quaternary Succession in the Great Cave of Niah, Sarawak. Asian Perspectives: Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the...

The Begak (Ida'an) Language of Sabah.(ABSTRACTS)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2005... 2005, The Begak (Ida'an) Language of Sabah. Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics. ISBN 90-76864-73X. This work contains the first comprehensive description of Begak (Ida'an), an Austronesian language...

Asian Perspectives: Journal of Archaeology for Asia & the Pacific: Reconstructing Human Subsistence in the West Mouth (Niah Cave, Sarawak) Burial Series Using Stable Isotopes of Carbon.(ABSTRACTS)
January 1, 2005... 2005, Reconstructing Human Subsistence in the West Mouth (Niah Cave, Sarawak) Burial Series Using Stable Isotopes of Carbon. Asian Perspectives: Journal of Archaeology for Asia & the Pacific, Vol. 44, Issue 1, 73-89. The human burial...

Journal of Archaeological Science: The Chemistry of Tree Resins and Ancient Rock Paintings in the Niah Caves, Sarawak (Borneo): Some Evidence of Rain Forest Management by Early Human Populations.(ABSTRACTS)
January 1, 2005... 2005, The Chemistry of Tree Resins and Ancient Rock Paintings in the Niah Caves, Sarawak (Borneo): Some Evidence of Rain Forest Management by Early Human Populations. Journal of Archaeological Science Vol. 32 Issue 6, 897-901. Research...

I kraft av risen. Hverdagsliv og sosial samhorighet blant Bidayuh i Sarawak (The Power of Rice. Everyday Life and Social Belonging among the Bidayuh in Sarawak).(ABSTRACTS)
January 1, 2005... 2004, I kraft av risen. Hverdagsliv og sosial samhorighet blant Bidayuh i Sarawak (The Power of Rice. Everyday Life and Social Belonging among the Bidayuh in Sarawak). M.Phil. Thesis, Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway. This...

Ornithological Monographs: Ornithology of Sabah: History, Gazetteer, Annotated Checklist and Bibliography.(ABSTRACTS)(Brief article)
January 1, 2005... 2001, Ornithology of Sabah: History, Gazetteer, Annotated Checklist and Bibliography. Ornithological Monographs No. 52, pp. 1-285. The American Ornithologists' Union. Sabah is the Malaysian state representing former British North Borneo....

Service-Driven Market Orientation and Service Quality in Higher Education.(ABSTRACTS)
January 1, 2005... 2005, Service-Driven Market Orientation and Service Quality in Higher Education, D.B.A. thesis in marketing, University of South Australia. Market orientation, the manifestation of the marketing concept, is central in services marketing....

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology: Autonomy, Identity and 'Illegal' Logging in the Borderland of West Kalimantan, Indonesia.(ABSTRACTS)(Brief article)
January 1, 2005... 2005, Autonomy, Identity and 'Illegal' Logging in the Borderland of West Kalimantan, Indonesia. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 6(1): 19-34. Borderland identity and traditional community autonomy affect the practice of "illegal"...

Tribus: The "Palang" Phenomenon and Its Historic and Socio-cultural Background in Southeast Asia.(ABSTRACTS)
January 1, 2005... 2004, The "Palang" Phenomenon and Its Historic and Socio-cultural Background in Southeast Asia. Tribus, Jahrbuch 53, pp. 185--202, Linden-Museum Stuttgart (Germany). In many museums, private collections, and antique shops we can find...

Med. J. Msia: Micronutrients and Its [sic] Correlation with Mental Performance among School Children in Bario, Sarawak.(ABSTRACTS)
January 1, 2005... 2002, Micronutrients and Its [sic] Correlation with Mental Performance among School Children in Bario, Sarawak. Med. J. Msia 58 (3):309-19. The Bario highlands have long been known to be goiter-free and to have high-iodine well water and...

Borneo bibliography 2005.
January 1, 2005... Abdul Rahman Mohamed Yusof 1984 Perkembangan Teater di Brunei [The Development of Theatre in Brunei]. Beriga, No. 3(April-June):57-62. Cited in Hussainmiya 2003:297. Abdul Razak bin Pengiran Haji Damit, Pengiran 2001 Brunei Bay,...