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Jan 01, 2008 ... In This Issue We begin this issue with a memorial section dedicated to two extraordinarily gifted scholars, Reed Wadley and Robert Barrett. Both died, tragically, at the peak of their intellectual powers. Of the two, Reed was the youngest. I first met Reed in 1994 at ...
Reed L. Wadley: 1962-2008.(MEMORIALS)
Jan 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Reed Wadley, Associate Professor at the University of Missouri (Columbia) died June 28 after a courageous two-year long battle with Ewing's sarcoma. Dr. Wadley's cremated remains were divided between his family in Idaho and his Iban family in Borneo. He is ...
In honor of Reed Lee Wadley.(MEMORIALS)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Sometime before June 1992, I had heard about a brief study by a doctoral student, Reed Wadley, on the impact of roads in the area of Danau Sentarum Wildlife Reserve. My husband, 10-year old son, and I were headed up the Kapuas River to work in that area of West Kalimantan, Indonesia, and I ...
Remembering Reed Wadley--"... and you will.".(In memoriam)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In my mind today, I can hear those three short words just as I did during my Ph.D. qualifying exam. The goal that day was for a committee to identify my weaknesses--a necessary, but unpleasant rite of passage--and we had been at it for several hours. A professor posed a question to me, ...
Robert John Barrett: 1949-2007.(In memoriam)
Jan 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A Passionate Love: The Contributions of the Late Professor Robert John Barrett Professor Robert John Barrett died suddenly, after a long and difficult illness, on January 12th, 2007. At the time of his death, at the age of 57, he was Head of ...
Negara Brunei Darussalam: obituary 2008.(MEMORIALS)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Introduction The most remarkable Bruneian who died during 2008 was Yang Amat Mulia Pengiran Dipa Negara Laila Diraja Pengiran Haji Abdul Momin bin Pengiran Haji Ismail, a ceteria who served as a Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) from 1970 until 1982. Dato Abdul Wahab bin Mohammad ...
In search of Simon [Sindurang Bulakang]: a pioneer defender of Kadazan rights in colonial North Borneo.(RESEARCH NOTES)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In 1910, the Dusun of Papar (2) engaged the services of an English lawyer to summon the North Borneo (Chartered) Company administration to answer to charges that the Company had erred in selling land owned by members of the community to the railway and to plantation estates, thus violating ...
Daniel Smith's last seven years: hardships in country trade in the East Indies in the early nineteenth century.(RESEARCH NOTES)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Introduction: The "country trade" and Borneo in the early nineteenth century After the occupation of Prince of Wales Island (Penang) (2) in 1786 by the East India Company (EIC), there soon arose a small community of merchants and traders whose activities complemented those of ...
An interview with Dr. Hj. Zaini Ahmad, Kuala Lumpur, 1985.(RESEARCH NOTES)(Interview)
Jan 01, 2008; ... I first met Zaini Ahmad in Kuala Lumpur in 1985 when he was in charge of the hostel for Sabah students in Jalan Ampang while working for PERKIM, the Muslim Welfare Association of Malaysia. As executive secretary of Partai Ra'ayat Brunei (PRB), he had been in Manila en route to New York to ...
The Lahanan of the Balui, 1963-2006.(RESEARCH NOTES)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Lahanan of the Batang Balui were the focus of research I started as a Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow at Macquarie University in Sydney. My original plan was to carry out a demographic and socio-economic study of Levu Lahanan, Long Pangai on the mid-Balui. Two five-month periods of ...
Penan and the Pulong Tau National Park: historical links and contemporary life.(RESEARCH NOTES)(Company overview)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Introduction A number of people live adjacent to the Pulong Tau National Park (PTNP): the Lun Bawang to the north, the Kelabit to the east and south, the Sa'ben to the southeast, and the Penan to the west and south. This paper is a general description of the seven groups of ...
The Punan Vuhang belief system: cosmology and rituals.(RESEARCH NOTES)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Introduction In 1994, decades after the Punan Vuhang and spirits of their cosmos had ceased contact with each other due to the Punan Vuhang's conversion to Christianity, two dwarflike otu dokgek spirits appeared to the people to appeal for help. One night, during a long period ...
Ethnohistory of the Kayanic peoples in Northeast Borneo (Part 2): expansion, regional alliance groups, and Segai disturbances in the colonial era.(RESEARCH NOTES)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Datu Mancang (1) came up the Kayan River searching for local inhabitants. He found a village on the island of Busa:ng Aru:, near the mouth of the Pengian tributary (on the lower Kayan). There lived the Hopan, descendants of a female chief, Lahay "Bara:," (2) and Datu Mancang made a ...
The strange case of the missing village rights to land: G.C. Woolley's compilation of customary law in the colony of North Borneo.(RESEARCH NOTES)
Jan 01, 2008; ... I consider it a mistake to allow any body of men, who have monetary interests, to have absolute control over a territory; for as long as human nature is what it is there must always be a temptation for the directors and shareholders in such a company to sanction .... revenue-producing ...
Matrix to mosaic: habitat fragmentation from 1982-1999 in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.(RESEARCH NOTES)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Introduction As the footprint of human society expands on the earth, habitat loss and fragmentation are global problems of increasing significance. Habitat loss and fragmentation cause the natural matrix of a landscape to become a mosaic of patches. Each patch is a relatively ...
Contesting convention in Malay-world historiography.(The Malays)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Anthony Milner. The Malays, 2008. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, Pp. xiv, 293. ISBN 978-0-631-17222-2. Many of us indulge, from time to time, the affectation of writing in the third person ("the present writer suggests") in order to create an impression of neutrality or ...
Rejoinder brief comments on: Iban Art: Sexual Selection and Severed Heads--Weaving, Sculpture, Tattooing and Other Arts of the Iban of Borneo.(Iban Art: Sexual Selection and Severed Heads - Weaving, Sculpture, Tattooing and Other Arts of the Iban of Borneo)(Women's War: An Update of the Literature on Iban Textiles)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Iban Art: Sexual Selection and Severed Heads--Weaving, Sculpture, Tattooing and Other Arts of the Iban of Borneo, by Michael Heppell, Limbang anak Melaka, and Enyan anak Usen (2005). Leiden/ Amsterdam: C. Zwartenkot-Art Books/KIT Publishers and Women's War: An Update ...
Letter from Lundu 10 February 2009.(BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS)
Jan 01, 2008; ... I'm neither a former D.O. nor a missionary, yet I too am an Old Hand and one day I too shall write a memoir of life in Sarawak. Or maybe I won't. However, I have a title, and a catchy title is nothing to waste, so here it is: A Lawn in Borneo. Life in Borneo has been mostly ...
Materials from the Dutch colonial archives deposited by Reed L. Wadley in the Tun Jugah Foundation Archives, Kuching, Sarawak.(BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In May 2008, shortly before his death, Dr. Reed Wadley deposited with the Tun Jugah Foundation in Kuching two large storage cartons of archival materials together with a brief inventory describing their content. This inventory is reproduced below. The materials themselves contained in the ...
Summary of Professor Robert Barrett's data held in the University of Adelaide Barr Smith Library special collection archives.(BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS)
Jan 01, 2008; ... When Professor Barrett passed away he left behind a substantial amount of unfinished work. He also left meticulous field notes from his completed work, along with hundreds of photographs and recordings. His work represents a remarkable devotion to his work and to the disciplines of ...