Recently added articles from Borneo Research Bulletin:
Notes from the editor.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2007 ... The coming year--2008--marks the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Borneo Research Council. Among the Council's purposes are the promotion of scientific research in Borneo and the free flow of information regarding research activities and findings. During a meeting held in New ...
Rodney Needham: 1923-2006.(MEMORIALS)(In memoriam)
Jan 01, 2007; Endicott, Kirk ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] RODNEY NEEDHAM: A PERSONAL REMEMBRANCE I was incredibly lucky to have Professor Rodney Needham as my teacher, research supervisor, mentor, patron, and friend. As hard as he could be on professional rivals and scholars with whom he disagreed, he ...
Doing fieldwork among the Penan: an interview with Rodney Needham recorded in 2000 by Joella Werlin.(MEMORIALS)(Interview)
Jan 01, 2007; Sather, Clifford ... What follows is very possibly the only recorded interview that Professor Rodney Needham ever consented to give concerning his fieldwork in Borneo. (1) The topic, fittingly, is Professor Needham's recollections of his pioneer fieldwork among the Sarawak Penan in 1951-52, (2) related in this ...
The Revd. A. J. M. (Max) Saint: 1910-2007.(MEMORIALS)(In memoriam)
Jan 01, 2007; Reece, Bob ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I first met Max Saint on one of my academic leaves in Oxford in the early 1980s when he was a retired Anglican clergyman with an honorary attachment to St Antony's College (where I was located at the time). He had been rector of the nearby Church of St ...
Reginald Hugh Hickling: 2 August 1920-11 February 2007.(MEMORIALS)(In memoriam)
Jan 01, 2007; Saunders, Graham ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Generally known as Hugh, Reginald Hugh Hickling was born in Derby, England, the elder son of Frederick Hickling, a police officer, and his wife Elsie. He was educated at Buxton College and then Nottingham University, where he became the youngest student to ...
Ybhg. Dato' Hj. Mohamad Taha Bin Ariffin: 1943-2007.(MEMORIALS)(Obituary)
Jan 01, 2007; Porritt, Vernon L. ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On 25 November 2007, Sarawak lost a quiet-spoken, unassuming, yet powerful, citizen of integrity, Dato' Hj. Mohamad Taha Ariffin. His political and social standing in his home state of Sarawak is perhaps exemplified by Sarawak's Chief Minister Tan Sri ...
Negara Brunei Darussalam: obituary 2007.(MEMORIALS)(List)
Jan 01, 2007; Horton, A.V.M. ... The royal family was in mourning during the year because of the return to the mercy of Allah in August 2007 of Pengiran Anak Hajjah Damit binti Pengiran Pemancha Pengiran Anak Haji Mohammed Alam. Daughter of a vizier and younger sister to Her Majesty the current Raja Isteri (Pengiran Anak ...
Messengers or tipsters? Some cautious though concluding thoughts on Brunei-Dusun augury.(RESEARCH NOTES)
Jan 01, 2007; Kershaw, Maria Eva ... For several reasons, but not excluding the writers' accumulating years, it seems unlikely that we ourselves will be able to carry out further research on Brunei-Dusun augury. The present paper is likely therefore to constitute our own "last word" on the subject. (1) ...
Abu Bakar's rebellion, 1879 (1).(RESEARCH NOTES)
Jan 01, 2007; Wadley, Reed L. ... Rebellion seems to be one of the logical consequences of conquest, for throughout human history where force is used to expand territory, rebellion is never very far behind. Being the inevitable outcome of conquest is no guarantee of success, however, and there are probably many more failed ...
An "arch-villain" to be rehabilitated? Mixed perceptions of pangeran Anom of sambas in the early nineteenth century; with an appendix on John Hunt (1).(RESEARCH NOTES)(Company overview)
Jan 01, 2007; Smith, F. Andrew ... Introduction Maritime raiding that included attacks on both native and (more rarely) foreign shipping was endemic around Borneo until well into the nineteenth century. The Muslim rulers of the coastal polities inextricably combined trading and raiding, and the relative ...
The development of a new religion in Central Kalimantan (1).(RESEARCH NOTES)(Kaharingan)
Jan 01, 2007; Baier, Martin ... For the last forty-five years, since Alfred Hudson began his excellent research in East Barito in the 1960s, and followed since then by many others, religious manifestations in Indonesian Borneo have been intensely studied, described, and explained by foreign observers and indigenous ...
The shamanic belian sentiu rituals of the Benuaq Ohookng, with special attention to the ritual use of plants.(RESEARCH NOTES)(Obituary)
Jan 01, 2007; Zahorka, Herwig ... Introduction The Dayak Benuaq Ohookng people of East Kalimantan believe in a diverse multitude of territorial spirits known as wook. Some wook have the power to remove the soul (juus) thought to reside in a human body part or organ. At the same time, they implant disease with ...
Rules of inheritance and transfer of land by the Iban of Sarawak: land as an intergenerational resource.(RESEARCH NOTES)
Jan 01, 2007; Ichikawa, Masahiro ... Introduction This paper aims to describe rules of inheritance and transfer of land by the Iban, a native group in Sarawak, and to examine Iban concepts of natural resource management. Fieldwork was conducted mainly in one longhouse, although 14 others were visited for ...
Constitutional change in sarawak 1963-1988: 25 years as a state within the federation of Malaysia.(RESEARCH NOTES)
Jan 01, 2007; Porritt, Vernon L. ... Introduction When Sarawak joined the Federation of Malaysia on 16 September 1963, it was a secular state with its own constitution, which was integrated into the Federation's constitution, with provisions and exceptions to reflect the special rights of Sarawak within the ...
The Kitingan case, the Borneo states, and the Malaysian constitution.(RESEARCH NOTES)
Jan 01, 2007; Reece, Bob ... Introduction In about October 1992, I was asked by Mr. Harjeet Singh of the Kuala Lumpur legal firm of Shearn, Delamore & Co. if I would provide expert advice in the form of an affidavit in the case of Datuk Jeffrey Kitingan, a Sabah Kadazan-Dusun politician and Director of the ...
Letter from Lundu: 15 January 2008.(BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS)(Lundu, Sarawak, Malaysia)
Jan 01, 2007; Steinmayer, Otto ... After noon on the first day of 2008 we heard the harsh, creaking rusty-gate sound of a hornbill. I went out to look, and I was surprised and delighted to find that the bird was perched on the top of a dead mengeris. He--I'll call it "he" because it's the male birds who parade their ...
Borneo 2007: three European exhibitions (1).(BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS)
Jan 01, 2007; Sellato, Bernard ... The year 2007 appears to have been an exceptionally good one for Borneo in Europe. Two exhibitions were held in France, and one in Switzerland, which prominently featured the big island, its forests, its peoples, its cultures and its arts. Here follows a brief review of those three events ....
The "unwritten" last chapter of the late Ong Kee Hui's Footsteps in Malaysia: political development of Sarawak since 1963 (1).(BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS)
Jan 01, 2007; Porritt, Vernon L. ... In the Foreword to Footsteps in Malaysia, Tan Sri Datuk Amar Dr. George Chan Hong Nam wrote, "we had intended to include writings on his [Ong Kee Hui] principles in life in this book but unfortunately he passed away before he wrote them." (2) In fact, an outline and part of the "unwritten" ...
The Brunei Revolt.(BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS)
Jan 01, 2007; Taylor, Brian ... The half-century anniversary of the Brunei Revolt of 8 December 1962 will soon be approaching. Various accounts have been written, but they have often lacked independence and freedom from "party line" influence. There is also a large amount of personal recollection, and private ...
Borneo Research Council Ninth Biennial International Conference.(ANNOUNCEMENTS)
Jan 01, 2007 ... 29-31 JULY 2008 (Including Photographic Competition and Exhibition, 28 July-1 August 2008) The Ninth Biennial Conference of the Borneo Research Council (BRC) will take place in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, for three days, 29-31 July, 2008. The Conference is organized by the School of ...