The Forest, Source of Life: The Kelabit of Sarawak
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A study of the way in which the Kelabit utilise raw materials from the rainforest to construct a socially ordered world. Catalogues of the collections made by the author for the British and Sarawak Museums are included and there are numerous photographs of items being made and in use. The volume will be of interest to scholars of Borneo, and to those interested in the social and symbolic significance of material culture. Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Kelabit: background; Clothes, hair and personal adornment; The Kelabit language; The Kelabit hearth; Kelabit agriculture; Kelabit use of the wild; Life force from the wild: Lalud ; Irau feasts: statements of status, rice-growing success and potency; Rice and the wild: gender, the Rice Meal and the generation of Ulum ; Conclusion: crafting a human world; Plates; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0861591437
ISBN13:9780861591435
Release Date:November 2003
Publisher:British Museum Press
Length:154 Pages
Weight:2.14 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 8.3" x 11.9"
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