Borneo Research Bulletin articles from January 1 2007

Borneo Research Bulletin archives from January 1 2007

Notes from the editor.(Editorial)
January 1, 2007... The coming year--2008--marks the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Borneo Research Council. Among the Council's purposes are the promotion of scientific research in Borneo and the free flow of information regarding research activities...

Rodney Needham: 1923-2006.(MEMORIALS)(In memoriam)
January 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] RODNEY NEEDHAM: A PERSONAL REMEMBRANCE I was incredibly lucky to have Professor Rodney Needham as my teacher, research supervisor, mentor, patron, and friend. As hard as he could be on professional rivals and...

Doing fieldwork among the Penan: an interview with Rodney Needham recorded in 2000 by Joella Werlin.(MEMORIALS)(Interview)
January 1, 2007... What follows is very possibly the only recorded interview that Professor Rodney Needham ever consented to give concerning his fieldwork in Borneo. (1) The topic, fittingly, is Professor Needham's recollections of his pioneer fieldwork among the...

The Revd. A. J. M. (Max) Saint: 1910-2007.(MEMORIALS)(In memoriam)
January 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I first met Max Saint on one of my academic leaves in Oxford in the early 1980s when he was a retired Anglican clergyman with an honorary attachment to St Antony's College (where I was located at the time). He had...

Reginald Hugh Hickling: 2 August 1920-11 February 2007.(MEMORIALS)(In memoriam)
January 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Generally known as Hugh, Reginald Hugh Hickling was born in Derby, England, the elder son of Frederick Hickling, a police officer, and his wife Elsie. He was educated at Buxton College and then Nottingham University,...

A new scientific and academic book series has been created within the publishing house Connaissances et Savoirs (147-149 rue Saint-Honore, 75001, Paris, www.connaissancessavoirs.com), concerned with Southeast Asia, South Asia, Nusantara, the Pacific and Far East, entitled "Sources d'Asie".(New Book Series)
January 1, 2007... A new scientific and academic book series has been created within the publishing house Connaissances et Savoirs (147-149 rue Saint-Honore, 75001, Paris, www.connaissancessavoirs.com), concerned with Southeast Asia, South Asia, Nusantara, the...

Persatuan Sains Sosial Malaysia (Malaysian Social Science Association): the 6th International Malaysian Studies Conference (MSC6).(ANNOUNCEMENTS)
January 1, 2007... 5-7 August 2008 (Tuesday-Thursday) Theme: Engaging Malaysian Modernity: 50 Years and Beyond Venue: Crowne Plaza Hotel Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia MSC6 CONVENORS Persatuan Sains Sosial Malaysia (in English: Malaysian Social...

Borneo reunion to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of VSO Kuching, 19-20 July.(ANNOUNCEMENTS)
January 1, 2007... 2008 marks the 50th anniversary of the beginning of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO). The Borneo states and Sarawak in particular have a special place in this history, as the first VSO volunteers worked with the Budu Community Development...

For purposes of species distribution modeling based on herbarium records, N. Reas (Leiden) used all Shorea records of Borneo for his pilot study on validating models.(BORNEO NEWS)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... For purposes of species distribution modeling based on herbarium records, N. Reas (Leiden) used all Shorea records of Borneo for his pilot study on validating models. Species distribution models related species' presence-only data to...

The Third International Borneo-Kalimantan Inter-University Conference (KonferensiAntaruniversitise Borneo-Kalimantanke-Tiga) was held in Kota Banjarmasin, Kalimantan Selatan, June 15-17, 2007.(BORNEO NEWS)(Conference news)
January 1, 2007... The Third International Borneo-Kalimantan Inter-University Conference (KonferensiAntaruniversitise Borneo-Kalimantanke-Tiga) was held in Kota Banjarmasin, Kalimantan Selatan, June 15-17, 2007. The conference was opened by the Governor of South...

On 26 November, 2007, an international seminar on "Ibanic languages and communities in the Malay world" (Seminar Antarabangsa Bahasa dan Masyaratkat lbanik di Alam Melayu) was held at the Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu (Institute of the Malay World and Civilization), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor.(BORNEO NEWS)
January 1, 2007... On 26 November, 2007, an international seminar on "Ibanic languages and communities in the Malay world" (Seminar Antarabangsa Bahasa dan Masyaratkat lbanik di Alam Melayu) was held at the Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu (Institute of the...

Dr. Kenneth Sillander, lecturer at the Swedish School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, has been awarded a postdoctoral research, travel and writing grant from the Academy of Finland for a period of three years, beginning 1 January 2008.(KALIMANTAN NEWS)
January 1, 2007... Dr. Kenneth Sillander, lecturer at the Swedish School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, has been awarded a postdoctoral research, travel and writing grant from the Academy of Finland for a period of three years, beginning 1 January...

August 1-17, 2005, M. Mansur (Bogor) studied the ecology of Nepenthes in Hulu Barito river area, Central Kalimantan, together with Dr. F. Brearley from the Stirling University, Scotland.(KALIMANTAN NEWS)
January 1, 2007... August 1-17, 2005, M. Mansur (Bogor) studied the ecology of Nepenthes in Hulu Barito river area, Central Kalimantan, together with Dr. F. Brearley from the Stirling University, Scotland. September 16-October 3, 2005, I. Larashati, E. Mirmanto,...

Professor Abdul Halim Ali has been appointed Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies (Institut Pengajian Asia Timur), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Kota Samarahan, Sarawak.(SARAWAK NEWS)
January 1, 2007... Professor Abdul Halim Ali has been appointed Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies (lnstitut Pengajian Asia Timur), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Kota Samarahan, Sarawak. Professor Halim replaces Professor Madya Dr. James U.H....

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, 2005, Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, 2005, Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton, N J: Princeton University Press, 321 pp. Friction is at once an exploration of big ideas (such as connectivity and the portability of universalisms) and...

James U.H. Chin and Jayl Langub, editors, Reminiscences: Recollections of Sarawak Administrative Service Officers.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... James U.H. Chin and Jayl Langub, editors, Reminiscences: Recollections of Sarawak Administrative Service Officers. Subang Jaya: Pelanduk Publications. 2007, 335 pp. ISBN 967-967-978-943-8, US$ 23.50. Brooke officers left us a number of...

Judith M. Heiman, 2007, The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II.
January 1, 2007... Judith M. Heiman, 2007, The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II. New York: Harcourt, Inc., 289 pp. Judith Heimann is known to most of us from her earlier...

Airman Ernest G. Darch, 2004, Survival in Japanese POW Camps with Changkol and Basket.(Survival in Japanese POW Camps with Changkol and Basket, 2d ed.)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Airman Ernest G. Darch, 2004, Survival in Japanese POW Camps with Changkol and Basket, Markham [Ontario]: Stewart Publishing & Printing, 214 pp. ISBN 1-894183-56-8. This second but unrevised Canadian edition of Ernest Darch's World War II...

Julitta Lim Shau Hua, PhD, Pussy's in the Well: Japanese Occupation of Sarawak 1941-1945.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Julitta Lim Shau Hua, PhD, Pussy's in the Well: Japanese Occupation of Sarawak 1941-1945, Kuching: SUPP Headquarters, 2005, 489 pp, ISBN 983-41998-2-1. Here is a book that will warm the hearts of those who can never forgive the Japanese...

Hew Cheng Sim, editor, 2007, Village Mothers City Daughters: Women and Urbanization in Sarawak.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Hew Cheng Sim, editor, 2007, Village Mothers City Daughters: Women and Urbanization in Sarawak. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies: Singapore. x + 150 pp. ISBN 978-981-230-415-5 (softcover). Also available in hardcover. Addressing a...

Tim Bending, 2006, Penan Histories: Contentious Narratives in Upriver Sarawak.
January 1, 2007... Tim Bending, 2006, Penan Histories: Contentious Narratives in Upriver Sarawak. Leiden: KITLV Press. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Eastern Penan in Borneo (a few communities of which were and in rare cases continue to be nomadic)...

Peter G. Sercombe & Bernard Sellato, 2007, Beyond the Green Myth: Hunter-Gatherers of Borneo in the Twenty-First Century.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Peter G. Sercombe & Bernard Sellato, 2007, Beyond the Green Myth: Hunter-Gatherers of Borneo in the Twenty-First Century. With a Foreword by Kirk Endicott. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. Studies in Asian Topics Series, No 37;...

Pengembara, 2008, Wanderer in Malaysian Borneo.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Pengembara, 2008, Wanderer in Malaysian Borneo. Shah Alam: Marshall Cavendish Editions [actually launched in 2007]. Forewords by Tan Sri Datuk Amar Haji Abdul Aziz bin Dato Haji Husain, Ahmad Nizam Saileh, and Thomas Varughese; paperback; xx +...

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health: Saving the rainforest through health care: medicine as conservation in Borneo.
January 1, 2007... Ali R. and S.M. Jacobs, 2007, Saving the rainforest through health care: medicine as conservation in Borneo. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health. 13(3): 295-311. This article gives an overview of rainforest...

2007, Journal of Human Evolutuion: The 'human revolution' in lowland tropical Southeast Asia: the antiquity and behavior of anatomically modern humans at Niah Cave (Sarawak, Borneo).(Author abstract)
January 1, 2007... Barker, G., H. Barton, M. Bird, P. Daly, I. Datan, A. Dykes, L. Farr, D. Gilbertson, B. Harrisson, C. Hunt, T. Higham, L. Kealhofer, J. Krigbaum, H. Lewis, S. McLaren, V. Paz, A. Pike, P. Piper, B. Pyatt, R. Rabett, T. Reynolds, J. Rose, G....

2006, Departement d'Anthropologie: Des entites invisibles qui font vivre les humains : Une approche cosmocentrique de la differenciation, de la preseance et leur articulation l'egalitarisme chez les Iban de Sarawak (Malaysia).(Author abstract)
January 1, 2007... Beguet, Veronique, 2006, Des entites invisibles qui font vivre les humains : Une approche cosmocentrique de la differenciation, de la preseance et leur articulation l'egalitarisme chez les iban de Sarawak (Malaysia). Ph.D. these, Departement...

2006, Ambio: Recognizing local people's priorities for tropical forest biodiversity.(Author abstract)
January 1, 2007... Sheil, D., R. Puri, M. Wan, I. Basuki, M. van Heist, N. Liswanti, I. Rukmiyati, I. Rachmatika, I. Samsoedin, 2006, Recognizing local people's priorities for tropical forest biodiversity. Ambio 35(1): 17-24. Tropical forest people often...

2006, BMC Ecology: Clouded leopards, the secretive top carnivore of South-East Asian rainforests: their distribution, status and conservation needs in Sabah, Malaysia.
January 1, 2007... Wilting A., F. Fischer, S. Abu Bakar, and K.E. Linsenmair, 2006, Clouded leopards, the secretive top carnivore of South-East Asian rainforests: their distribution, status and conservation needs in Sabah, Malaysia. BMC Ecology 6: 16. ...

Borneo bibliography 2007.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2007... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am particularly grateful to Professor Clifford Sather for his assistance in the preparation of this bibliography. My thanks also to Dr. George N. Appell and Mr. Simon Francis. Abdul Hamid Jaludin 1996 Syari [sic]...

2007, Proceedings, Biological Sciences/The Royal Society: Impacts of the live reef fish trade on populations of coral reef fish off northern Borneo.
January 1, 2007... Scales, H., A. Balmford, and A. Manica, 2007, Impacts of the live reef fish trade on populations of coral reef fish off northern Borneo. Proceedings, Biological Sciences/ The Royal Society, 274(1612): 989-94. The live reef fish trade (LRFT)...

2007, Food and Nutrition Bulletin: From sago to rice, from forest to town: the consequences of sedentarization for the nutritional ecology of Punan former hunter-gatherers of Borneo.(Author abstract)
January 1, 2007... Dounias, E.,A. Selzner, M. Koizumi, P. Levang, 2007, From sago to rice, from forest to town: the consequences of sedentarization for the nutritional ecology of Punan former hunter-gatherers of Borneo. Food and Nutrition Bulletin 28(2) Suppl:...

2007, Ecological Applications: Bird species and traits associated with logged and unlogged forest in Borneo.
January 1, 2007... Cleary D.F., T.J. Boyle, T. Setyawati, C.D. Anggraeni, E.E. Van Loon, and S.B. Menken, 2007, Bird species and traits associated with logged and unlogged forest in Borneo. Ecological Applications 17(4): 1184-97. The ecological consequences...

2007, Ethnos: Fixity and Flux: Bidayah (Dis)engagements with the Malaysian ethnic system.(Author abstract)
January 1, 2007... Chua, Linda, 2007, Fixity and Flux: Bidayah (Dis)engagements with the Malaysian ethnic system. Ethnos 72(2): 262-288. This article explores conceptions of the Malaysian ethnic system from the perspective of certain Bidayuhs, an indigenous...

2007, Research Series in Anthropology: Survival in the Rainforest: Change and resilience among the Punan Vuhang of Eastern Sarawak, Malaysia.(Author abstract)
January 1, 2007... Chan, Henry, 2007, Survival in the Rainforest: Change and resilience among the Punan Vuhang of Eastern Sarawak, Malaysia. Ph.D. dissertation/Research Series in Anthropology, University of Helsinki. ISBN 978-952-10-3918-8 (paperback), vii+401...

2007, Anthropos: A Sociohistorical transition: Trade in forest products and bride-price among the Punan Tubu of Eastern Kalimantan.
January 1, 2007... Cesard, Nicolas, 2007, A Sociohistorical transition: Trade in forest products and bride-price among the Punan Tubu of Eastern Kalimantan. Anthropos 102: 455477. Most of the former nomadic Punan of Kalimantan (Borneo) reside along the large...

2006, Primates: Survey of Hylobates agilis albibarbis in a logged peat-swamp forest: Sabangau catchment, Central Kalimantan.
January 1, 2007... Buckley, C., K.A. Nekaris, and S.J. Husson, 2006, Survey of Hylobates agilis albibarbis in a logged peat-swamp forest: Sabangau catchment, Central Kalimantan. Primates 47(4): 327-35. Few data are available on gibbon populations in...

Borneo Research Council Ninth Biennial International Conference.(ANNOUNCEMENTS)
January 1, 2007... 29-31 JULY 2008 (Including Photographic Competition and Exhibition, 28 July-1 August 2008) The Ninth Biennial Conference of the Borneo Research Council (BRC) will take place in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, for three days, 29-31 July, 2008. The...

The Brunei Revolt.(BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS)
January 1, 2007... The half-century anniversary of the Brunei Revolt of 8 December 1962 will soon be approaching. Various accounts have been written, but they have often lacked independence and freedom from "party line" influence. There is also a large amount of...

The "unwritten" last chapter of the late Ong Kee Hui's Footsteps in Malaysia: political development of Sarawak since 1963 (1).(BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS)
January 1, 2007... In the Foreword to Footsteps in Malaysia, Tan Sri Datuk Amar Dr. George Chan Hong Nam wrote, "we had intended to include writings on his [Ong Kee Hui] principles in life in this book but unfortunately he passed away before he wrote them." (2)...

Borneo 2007: three European exhibitions (1).(BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS)
January 1, 2007... The year 2007 appears to have been an exceptionally good one for Borneo in Europe. Two exhibitions were held in France, and one in Switzerland, which prominently featured the big island, its forests, its peoples, its cultures and its arts. Here...

Letter from Lundu: 15 January 2008.(BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS)(Lundu, Sarawak, Malaysia)
January 1, 2007... After noon on the first day of 2008 we heard the harsh, creaking rusty-gate sound of a hornbill. I went out to look, and I was surprised and delighted to find that the bird was perched on the top of a dead mengeris. He--I'll call it "he"...

The Kitingan case, the Borneo states, and the Malaysian constitution.(RESEARCH NOTES)
January 1, 2007... Introduction In about October 1992, I was asked by Mr. Harjeet Singh of the Kuala Lumpur legal firm of Shearn, Delamore & Co. if I would provide expert advice in the form of an affidavit in the case of Datuk Jeffrey Kitingan, a Sabah...

Constitutional change in sarawak 1963-1988: 25 years as a state within the federation of Malaysia.(RESEARCH NOTES)
January 1, 2007... Introduction When Sarawak joined the Federation of Malaysia on 16 September 1963, it was a secular state with its own constitution, which was integrated into the Federation's constitution, with provisions and exceptions to reflect the...

Rules of inheritance and transfer of land by the Iban of Sarawak: land as an intergenerational resource.(RESEARCH NOTES)
January 1, 2007... Introduction This paper aims to describe rules of inheritance and transfer of land by the Iban, a native group in Sarawak, and to examine Iban concepts of natural resource management. Fieldwork was conducted mainly in one longhouse,...

The shamanic belian sentiu rituals of the Benuaq Ohookng, with special attention to the ritual use of plants.(RESEARCH NOTES)(Obituary)
January 1, 2007... Introduction The Dayak Benuaq Ohookng people of East Kalimantan believe in a diverse multitude of territorial spirits known as wook. Some wook have the power to remove the soul (juus) thought to reside in a human body part or organ. At the...

The development of a new religion in Central Kalimantan (1).(RESEARCH NOTES)(Kaharingan)
January 1, 2007... For the last forty-five years, since Alfred Hudson began his excellent research in East Barito in the 1960s, and followed since then by many others, religious manifestations in Indonesian Borneo have been intensely studied, described, and...

An "arch-villain" to be rehabilitated? Mixed perceptions of pangeran Anom of sambas in the early nineteenth century; with an appendix on John Hunt (1).(RESEARCH NOTES)(Company overview)
January 1, 2007... Introduction Maritime raiding that included attacks on both native and (more rarely) foreign shipping was endemic around Borneo until well into the nineteenth century. The Muslim rulers of the coastal polities inextricably combined trading...

Abu Bakar's rebellion, 1879 (1).(RESEARCH NOTES)
January 1, 2007... Rebellion seems to be one of the logical consequences of conquest, for throughout human history where force is used to expand territory, rebellion is never very far behind. Being the inevitable outcome of conquest is no guarantee of success,...

Messengers or tipsters? Some cautious though concluding thoughts on Brunei-Dusun augury.(RESEARCH NOTES)
January 1, 2007... For several reasons, but not excluding the writers' accumulating years, it seems unlikely that we ourselves will be able to carry out further research on Brunei-Dusun augury. The present paper is likely therefore to constitute our own "last...

Negara Brunei Darussalam: obituary 2007.(MEMORIALS)(List)
January 1, 2007... The royal family was in mourning during the year because of the return to the mercy of Allah in August 2007 of Pengiran Anak Hajjah Damit binti Pengiran Pemancha Pengiran Anak Haji Mohammed Alam. Daughter of a vizier and younger sister to Her...

Ybhg. Dato' Hj. Mohamad Taha Bin Ariffin: 1943-2007.(MEMORIALS)(Obituary)
January 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On 25 November 2007, Sarawak lost a quiet-spoken, unassuming, yet powerful, citizen of integrity, Dato' Hj. Mohamad Taha Ariffin. His political and social standing in his home state of Sarawak is perhaps exemplified...