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Article: Traude Gavin, Iban Ritual Textiles.(Book review)
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- Borneo Research Bulletin
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- January 1, 2005
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Traude Gavin, Iban Ritual Textiles. Leiden: KITLV Press. 2003, 356 pp. ISBN 90-6718-202-8, Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 205.
This publication makes available to a larger public the material contained in Traude Gavin's 1995 Ph.D. thesis from the University of Hull, Iban Ritual Fabrics; Their Patterns and Names. It, however, benefits from the intervening time that permitted development of concepts merely suggested in the earlier work, as well as two new chapters. This is an important work on Iban textiles and will be of significance to scholars of this and related fields. Some of the innovative interpretations may ...