The Other Tiger: History, Beliefs, and Rituals in Borneo
The Other Tiger : History, Beliefs, and Rituals in Borneo Bernard Sellato To cite this version: Bernard Sellato. The Other Tiger : History, Beliefs, and Rituals in Borneo. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies –Yusof Ishak Institute, 2019. halshs-02173873 HAL Id: halshs-02173873 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02173873 Submitted on 27 Jun 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. The Other Tiger. History, Beliefs, and Rituals in Borneo Bernard Sellato# Un tercer tigre buscaremos. Éste será como los otros una forma de mi sueño, un sistema de palabras humanas y no el tigre vertebrado que, más allá de las mitologías, pisa la tierra. Bien lo sé, pero algo me impone esta aventura indefinida, insensata y antigua, y persevero en buscar por el tiempo de la tarde el otro tigre, el que no está en el verso. Jorge Luis Borges, “El otro tigre” (1960) In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? William Blake (1757–1827) INTRODUCTION So far as is known today, the true tiger, Panthera tigris (L.), does not (any longer) exist in Borneo. Among the island‟s indigenous peoples, however, the tiger has a significant reality in historical traditions, folk literature, myths, beliefs, and rituals.
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