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Article: Healing flora of the Brunei Dusun. (Research Notes).
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- Borneo Research Bulletin
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Introduction
The Dusun of northwest Borneo inhabit the Tutong and Belait River watersheds of Brunei Darussalam (Fig. 1). Although officially recognized as Malay by the Brunei government, the Dusun are linguistically related to the Bisaya, an ethnic group currently inhabiting the Limbang region of Sarawak (Bernstein et al., 1997). Like most tropical forest societies on the island, their subsistence economy depended, at least until recently, on swidden hill rice cultivation, supplemented by fishing, snare trapping of forest game, and collection of extractive products (Antaran, 1993; King, 1993). Although the Dusun's ethnobotanical knowledge of the forests and ...