Life of the Longhouse - An Archaeology of Ethnicity

Informationen zum Autor Peter Metcalf is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. His research in Borneo spans thirty years! and he is the author of many books and articles. Klappentext The remarkable longhouses of Borneo remain mysterious. Peter Metcalf describes life within them, and puts them in their historical and ethnographic context. Zusammenfassung The remarkable longhouses of Borneo remain mysterious. This book provides an answer by integrating the oral histories of communities with colonial records. The key factor was a trade system stretching to China! via the ancient trading city of Brunei! which shaped the political and religious institutions of longhouse communities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the problem: ethnicity and community; Part I. Longhouses: 1. Longhouses; 2. Longhouse communities; 3. The coming of the Brooke Raj; Part II. Longhouses and Leaders: 4. Aban Jau's career; 5. Aban Jau's successors; Part III. Longhouses and Trade: 6. The sultan's fence; 7. Pre-modern upriver trade; Part IV. Longhouse Populations: 8. The linguistic data; 9. Disease, slavery, assimilation, annihilation; Part V. Longhouses and Ritual: 10. The ritual consensus; 11. The ritual operator; 12. The impresarios of the ancestors; Part VI. Longhouses and the State: 13. Longhouses during the Raj; 14. Longhouses after the Raj; Conclusion: the general and the particular.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Metcalf, Peter (University of Virginia) Metcalf, Metcalf Peter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2009
• EAN: 9780521110983
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11098-3
• No. of pages: 358
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Borneo, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Archaeology, Social and cultural anthropology, Archaeology by period / region