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Borneo Research Bulletin Is Published by the Borneo Research Council BORNEO RESEARCH BULLETlN ISSN: 0006-7806 VOL. 29 1998 PAGE NOTES FROM THE EDITOR 1 MEMORIALS Florence Mary Langdon Ewins 8 Geot'frey Riddle Hedley 8 Datuk Kitingan Sabanau 8 RESEARCH NOTES North Borneo over Seventy Years: Aithropological 10 Conunents on the Mun~tsof Sabah: John L Landgraf Sarawak Early Rice Project-Summary of 1998 19 F~eldwork.Chris Doherty, Paul Bravirt, and Edmund Kurui Brunei-Dusun Omen Birds and the Rice-Sowing Zodiac, 29 Some Ambivalent Portents for Autochthonous Research. Roger Kershaw Pr~vatePropeny, Comnlon Property and Collective 57 Choice: the Evolution of ban Land Tenure Institutions: R.A. Cramb and LR. Wills The Road to Change in the Kapuas Hulu Borderlands: 7 1 Jalan Lintas IJtara: Reed L. Wadley Little by Little, a National Subculture Is Made: the Role 95 of Modem Media in the Institutional Transformation of ban Society: John R. Postill Malaria vs. Genes in the Malayo-Bomean Arc: A. Baer 128 Medicinal and Other Uses of Tobacco among Rural 143 Kadazans and Bajaus in Sabah, Malaysia: Chong- Ying Gan "Th~sPeculiar Acuteness of Feeling": James Brooke and 148 the Enactment of Desire: J.H. Walker (wth d~scussionsand response) BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS 223 ANNOUNCEMENTS 232 BORNEO NEWS 244 BOOK REVIEWS, ABSTRACTS AND 24 8 BIBLIOGRAPHY The Borneo Research Bulletin is published by the Borneo Research Council. Please address all inquiries and contributions for publication to Clifford Sather, Editor, Borneo Research Bulktin, Cultural Anthropology, P.O. Box 13, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, FINLAND. Single issues are available at US $20.00. - Vol. 29 Borneo Research Bulletin 1 NOTES FROM THE EDITOR This past year, as we all know, has been a turbulent time throughout Southeast Asia. I It is a considerable accomplishment, therefore, that the Fifth Biennial Conference of the Borneo Research Council took place, with only a minor scheduling delay, on the campus of the University of Palangkaraya, in Palangka Raya, Kalimantan Tengah, on August I 10th through 14th. 1998. As Professor Syamsuni Arman, Chairman of the BRC Indonesia Office, observed in his opening remarks, scholars from Central Kalimantan have participated in every Biennial BRC Conference since the first one was held in Kuching in 1990. Palangka Raya was therefore an appropriate setting for the Council's most recent gathering and our Indonesian hosts were unstinting in their hospitality. On behalf of the Borneo Research Council, we wish to express our gratitude to the Honorable Governor of Central Kalimantan, Warsito Rasman, for generously inviting the BRC Conference to be held in the provincial capital of Palangka Raya and for presiding over its official opening. We also thank Professor Ir. H. Ali Hasymi, the Rector of the (I University of Palangkaraya, for welcoming the participants, and Professor H. KMA M. 1 Usop, the coordinator of the local organizing committee, and his committee members and helpers for their work in organizing the gathering and in arranging facilities for paper E sessions and other conference events. Volume 30 of the BRB will contain a report on the Palangka Raya Conference and information on the planning of our Sixth Biennial Conference to take place in the year 2000. Regrettably, a number of Council members were unable to attend the Palangka Raya conference. Throughout 1998, due to currency constraints, most Malaysian academics were unable to attend international meetings outside of Malaysia. In addition, 1 the timing of the Fifth Biennial Conference conflicted for others of us with the i International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (ICAES). Professor Vinson Sutlive, the Executive Director of the Borneo Research Council, is also the current President of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) and, in this capacity, he was the chief organizer of the IUAES Congress, which took place on the campus of the College of William and Mary. Your editor also participated, taking part in a panel organized by the Commission on Nomadic Peoples, "Commoditisat~onand the Nomadic Continuum." I also chalred a session on "Magical Healing" in whlch I also gave a paper. A number of other Borneanists were I present as well, including Tan Chee-Beng, Monica Janowskl, and Jerome Rousseau. Dr. I Janowski presented a paper analyzing the consumption of wild meat in relation to gender symbolism among the Kelabit, while Professor Tan, in an "Indigenization of i Anthropology" session, discussed the development of Malaysian anthropology in which 1; he included a brief, but cogent review of Sabah and Sarawak research. John Landgraf, in a session on the history of anthropology, described his long association with Borneo in a paper called "North Borneo over Seventy Years." As editor, I take this occasion to thank Dr. Landgraf for allowing us to publish a version of this paper, which appears in this I volume as our first Research Note. I would also like to thank John for permitting us to include a number of his personal photographs. Concurrently with the ICAES Congress, an exhibition of Iban ikat textiles was held 1 I: at the Muscarelle Museum of Art, on the campus of the College of William and Mary, ,I , I 1 I ~- 2 Borneo Research Bulletin Vol. 29 vol. 29 Borneo Research Bulletin 3 from July 1 lth through August 16th. Jointly sponsored by the Tun Jugah Foundation, the Offsetting this genuine concern, which is shared, I think, not only by historians, but National Science Foundation, and the Muscarelle Museum, the exhibition displayed over also by many anthropologists, Professor Reid points to a number of positive 70 Iban textiles (mainly pua' kutnbu), contributed by both the Sarawak Museum and developments. Among the good news he mentions is that Asian languages are private Malaysian collectors, and was the largest exhibition of its kind ever held outside flourishing. Today, Asian languages are better taught and more students in Western of Malaysia. One especially interesting feature was a selection of textiles depicting in universities are studying them than ever before, and Asian Studies centers are now fabric the weavers' perceptions of major historical events affecting their lives, notably frequently built around a language teaching core. In this, Professor Reid reminds us, there colonial rule. "Konfrontasi," and Malaysian Independence. In addition to the textiles, is, of course, an irony. The International Convention of Asia Scholars had its precursors, women weavers and a translator were present during exhibition hours to demonstrate beginning more than a century ago, in a series of International Congresses of Orientalists, weaving techniques and to answer questions about the use and significance of ikat cloth during the 9th of which, Professor Reid notes, Max Muller, in a presiding address, in Iban society. The exhibition drew large numbers of visitors both before and during the defined "Oriental scholars" as those "who have shown that they are able ... to translate a ICAES Congress. A beautifully illustrated catalogue, Ties That Bind, containing some text that has not been translated before." In retrospect, a century later, as he observes, 200 color photographs and a highly informative text, was prepared expressly for the "This fusty insistence on mastering Asian texts does not look so bad." Renewed interest exhibition by Datin Amar Margaret Linggi, herself an accomplished weaver, and is in Asian languages, "does not mean," however, "that Asia has again become exotic and available for sale through the Department of Anthropology, The College of William and separate from mainstream education." Instead, he argues, Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23 185, USA (see Announcements). This last year seems, in fact, to have been a year particularly notable for its young people [today] ...want to study ... languages as the indispensable conferences. In addition to the BRC's Palangaka Raya meetings and the Williamsburg key to another soclery, but they are combining this [study] with congress, in June a self-described "experiment in internationalization" took place when disciplines far beyond the old core of history, politics, literature, and the (North American) Association for Asian Studies and the (European) International anthropology, [to include fields] such as law, architecture, accounting Institute for Asian Studies, together with a number of smaller European groups, and business studies, health sciences, psychology, fine arts and film. organized the first combined international Asian Studies gathering, called the In this, he concludes, "Asianists will be endangered only if they fail to react International Convention of Asia Scholars, which was held June 25th through 28th in imaginatively to this broadening of their agenda." Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands. Another positive development that Professor Reid notes is that globalization has Professor Anthony Reid, President of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, tended to intensify interregional contacts among Asian scholars and so promises to make delivered a keynote speech in which he raised a number of issues, many of which, I think, Asian Studies ever stronger within the Asian region itself. In Borneo, this development is, are of shared concern to Borneo researchers. He began by reflecting briefly on recent perhaps, most notably reflected in the rapid growth of regional universities and research Australian experience. In the "expansive 1970s and '80s," he told his audience, centers and bodes well, I think, for the future and continued vitality
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