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The life of the longhouse : = an archaeology of ethnicity /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The life of the longhouse :/ Peter Metcalf.
Reminder of title:	an archaeology of ethnicity /
Author:	Metcalf, Peter.
Published:	New York :Cambridge University Press, : 2010.,
Description:	xi, 345 p. :ill., maps ;24 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	The problem : ethnicity and community -- pt. 1. Longhouses. Longhouses -- Longhouse communities -- The coming of the Brooke Raj -- pt. 2. Longhouses and leaders. Aban Jau's career -- Aban Jau's successors -- pt. 3. Longhouse and trade. The sultan's fence -- Premodern upriver trade -- pt. 4. Longhouse populations. The linguistic data -- Disease, slavery, assimilation, annihilation -- pt. 5. Longhouses and ritual. The ritual consensus -- The ritual operator -- The impresarios of the ancestors -- pt. 6. Longhouses and the state. Longhouses during the Raj -- Longhouses after the Raj -- Conclusion: The general and the particular.
Subject:	Longhouses - History. - Borneo -
Subject:	Borneo - Social life and customs. -
ISBN:	9780521110983 (hbk.) :

The life of the longhouse : = an archaeology of ethnicity /
Metcalf, Peter.

The life of the longhouse :an archaeology of ethnicity /Peter Metcalf. - New York :Cambridge University Press,2010. - xi, 345 p. :ill., maps ;24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-340) and indexes.

The problem : ethnicity and community -- pt. 1. Longhouses. Longhouses -- Longhouse communities -- The coming of the Brooke Raj -- pt. 2. Longhouses and leaders. Aban Jau's career -- Aban Jau's successors -- pt. 3. Longhouse and trade. The sultan's fence -- Premodern upriver trade -- pt. 4. Longhouse populations. The linguistic data -- Disease, slavery, assimilation, annihilation -- pt. 5. Longhouses and ritual. The ritual consensus -- The ritual operator -- The impresarios of the ancestors -- pt. 6. Longhouses and the state. Longhouses during the Raj -- Longhouses after the Raj -- Conclusion: The general and the particular.

"For two centuries, travellers were amazed at the massive buildings found along the rivers that flow from the mountainous interior of Borneo. They concentrated hundreds of people under one roof, in the middle of empty rainforests. There was no practical necessity for this arrangement, and it remains a mystery. Peter Metcalf provides an answer by showing the historical context, using both oral histories and colonial records. The key factor was a pre-modern trading system that funneled rare and exotic jungle products to China via the ancient coastal city of Brunei. Meanwhile the elite manufactured goods traded upriver shaped the political and religious institutions of longhouse society. However, the apparent permanence of longhouses was an illusion. In historical terms, longhouse communities were both mobile and labile, and the patterns of ethnicity they created more closely resemble the contemporary world than any stereotype of 'tribal' societies"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN: 9780521110983 (hbk.) :US85.00

LCCN: 2009037297Subjects--Topical Terms:

1059567
Longhouses
--History.--BorneoSubjects--Geographical Terms:

1059570
Borneo
--Social life and customs.

LC Class. No.: DS646.3 / .M47 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 305.89009598/3

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