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Changing Borders and Identities in the Kelabit Highlands: Anthropological Reflections on Growing up in a Kelabit Village near the International Border.(Book Review)
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 academic treatise, Poline Bala combines personal narratives regarding local perceptions of the border with insightful scholarly analysis. As a "native anthropologist"--Bala is herself a Kelabit from the Kelabit Highlands--the author wonderfully situates her work into the broader framework of research on the Kelabit people as well as the ethnography of borders. Bala begins with a refreshingly honest discussion of what it means to do research on one's own people. Included in this are comments on the Kelabit community's broader engagement with foreign anthropologists, both as they conduct…
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