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BRITISH and DUTCH PERCEPTIONS of CANNIBALISM in BORNEO, 1882-1964 Adrienne Smith
CONTIBUTOR BIO ADRIENNE SMITH is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in History with a minor in Women and Gender Studies at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo. She is particu- larly interested in modern Latin American and Middle Eastern studies. Adrienne is from the central coast of California, and in her free time enjoys spending time with family and friends, going to concerts, reading comic books, eating tacos, and traveling. 118 BRITISH AND DUTCH PERCEPTIONS OF CANNIBALISM IN BORNEO, 1882-1964 Adrienne Smith During Europe’s quest for direct control of Borneo from 1882-1964, British and Dutch explorers penetrated Borneo’s interior to establish colonies. Ex- plorers witnessed elaborate cannibalistic ceremonies. Some Europeans where excited by the existence of cannibals, others used the indigenous tribes’ canni- balistic customs to dehumanize them. This paper asks how British and Dutch travelers viewed cannibalism in Borneo, and why? I will argue that from 1882- 1964 British and Dutch perceptions of cannibalism in Borneo generated ex- ploration, while creating a stigma toward the indigenous people. My research required the use of travelogues in order to reach a better un- derstanding of the European perception of Southeast Asia. Travelogues provide a first-hand account of what colonizers experienced during their attempts to establish colonial rule over the East. The benefit of using travelogues is their representation of European knowledge as a whole during imperialism. The disadvantage of using travelogues, however, is they only focus on European interpretation. The examination of multiple historical approaches gives a better under- standing of Europe’s perceptions of Southeast Asian culture. -
Collecting the World
Large print text Collecting the World Please do not remove from this display Collecting the World Founded in 1753, the British Museum opened its doors to visitors in 1759. The Museum tells the story of human cultural achievement through a collection of collections. This room celebrates some of the collectors who, in different ways, have shaped the Museum over four centuries, along with individuals and organisations who continue to shape its future. The adjoining galleries also explore aspects of collecting. Room 1: Enlightenment tells the story of how, in the early Museum, objects and knowledge were gathered and classified. Room 2a: The Waddesdon Bequest, displays the collection of Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces left to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild MP at his death in 1898. Gallery plan 2 Expanding Horizons Room 1 Enlightenment Bequest Waddesdon The Room 2a 1 3 The Age Changing of Curiosity Continuity 4 Today and Tomorrow Grenville shop 4 Collecting the World page Section 1 6 The Age of Curiosity, 18th century Section 2 2 5 Expanding Horizons, 19th century Section 3 80 Changing Continuity, 20th century Section 4 110 Today and Tomorrow, 21st century Portraits at balcony level 156 5 Section 1 The Age of Curiosity, 18th century Gallery plan 2 Expanding Horizons 1 3 The Age Changing of Curiosity Continuity 4 Today and Tomorrow 6 18th century The Age of Curiosity The Age of Curiosity The British Museum was founded in 1753 as a place of recreation ‘for all studious and curious persons’. Its founding collection belonged to the physician Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753). -
An Eighteenth Century Japanese Sailor's Record of Insular Southeast Asia
Magotaro: An Eighteenth CenturySari Japanese 27 (2009) Sailor’s 45 - 66 Record 45 Magotaro: An Eighteenth Century Japanese Sailor’s Record of Insular Southeast Asia NOMURA TORU ABSTRAK Walaupun dipanggil Magoshici, Mogataro, pengembara Jepun dari kurun ke 18 dan lahir barangkali pada 1747 ini dirujuk sebagai Magotaro berdasarkan transkrip wawancaranya di pejabat majistret di Nagasaki. Nama yang sama digunakan dalam rekod lain, iaitu Oyakugashira Kaisen Mokuroku, rekod bisnes pada keluarga Tsugami, agen perkapalan di kampong halamannya. Dalam kertas ini, saya cuba mengesan pengalamannya dalam beberapa buah dokumen dan rekod. Yang paling penting dan yang boleh dicapai adalah An Account of a Journey to the South Seas. Ia menyiarkan kisah daripada wawancara dengannya pada usia tuanya. Dokumen rasmi lain mengenainya adalah Ikoku Hyoryu Tsukamatsurisoro Chikuzen no Kuni Karadomari Magotaro Kuchigaki yang merupakan transkrip soal siasat ke atasnya di Pejabat Majisret di Nagasa bila dia tiba di Nagasaki pada 1771. Selain itu, terdapat juga Oranda Fusetsugaki Shusei yang diserahkan kepada Natsume Izumizunokami Nobumasa, majistret Nagasaki oleh Arend Willem Feith, kapten kapal Belanda yang membawa Magotaro dihantar balik ke Jepun. Sumber-sumber lain, termasuk manuskrip, mempunyai gaya sastera, tetapi kurang dipercayai. Kata kunci: Korea, Jepun, China, membuat kapal, pengangkutan marin, Banjarmasin ABSTRACT Although called Magoshichi, the eighteenth century Japanese adventurer, Mogataro, born probably in 1747, was referred to as Magotaro, based on the transcript of his interview at the Nagasaki Magistrate Office. The same name is used in another record, Oyakugashira Kaisen Mokuroku, a business record of the Tsugami family, a shipping agent in Magotaro’s home village. In this paper, I attempt to trace his experiences in a number of documents and records. -
A. Brand Merit, Hierarchy and Royal Gift-Giving in Traditional Thai Society In
A. Brand Merit, hierarchy and royal gift-giving in traditional Thai society In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 131 (1975), no: 1, Leiden, 111-137 This PDF-file was downloaded from http://www.kitlv-journals.nl Downloaded from Brill.com09/29/2021 10:23:22AM via free access A. BRAND MERIT, HIERARCHY AND ROYAL GIFT-GIVING IN TRADITIONAL THAI SOCIETY Festivals, rites and processions, already the subject of extensive comment in the reports of early travellers and ethnologists, have retained their great importance in the analysis of traditional states. Anthropologists in search of manifestations of political power have continued to focus on "religious" rites, cremations and festivals, i.e., on phenomena which ostensibly have nothing much to do with administration and politics. Though Geertz has complained that in their concern for these matters anthropologists are "like theologians firmly dedicated to proving the indubitable",1 he himself also emphasizes that it is in ritual that we can find "the public dramatization of ruling obsessions",2 inter alia the obsession with specific "secular" social ties. To study "obsessions" or, in different terms, "value systems" via ritual has an obvious advantage: the strength of the obsession, as Norbert Elias has hinted, can be correlated with the length, frequency and elaborate- ness of the ritual.3 When one looks at the numerous festivals which occurred in traditional Thai society with these considerations in mind, an obvious target for analysis springs to the fore, viz. the Thot Khatin festival. Thot Khatin means literally the "laying down of the holy cloth", or the presentation of monastic robes. -
Three Recent Publications About Indonesian Material Culture, Art and Ethnography
Article de compte rendu/Review article Three Recent Publications about Indonesian Material Culture, Art and Ethnography Antonio J. Guerreiro * CORBEY, Raymond, Of Jars and Gongs. Two Keys to Ot Danum Dayak Cosmology, Leiden: C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2016, maps, photographs, bibliography, 88 p. CORBEY, Raymond, Raja Ampat Ritual Art. Spirits Priests and Ancestor Cults in New Guina’s far West, Leiden: C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2017, maps, photographs, bibliography, 164 p. CORBEY, Raymond, Jurookng. Shamanic amulets from Southeast Borneo, Leiden: C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2018, maps, photographs, line drawings of objects, bibliography, 243 p. The author of the books, Dr. Raymond Corbey, an anthropologist, combines diffe- rent talents, being trained in philosophy and archaeology, he taught in Tilburg and he is currently attached to Leiden University in the Netherlands.1 His interests for the status of tribal art in the West and related cultural issues have developed into a innovative approach of ethnographic collections in the Netherlands, com- bining a scholarly tradition and a comparative metholodogy, that adds salt to the publishing of Museum’s and private collections. * Anthropologist, museographer, ICOM-France member. Moussons n° 34, 2019-2, 185-202 186 Antonio J. Guerreiro The three books he published recently, at a rate of one volume a year, about Indonesian material culture, art and ethnography are welcome addition to the literature. Indeed, he considers little-known topics in the material culture of the archipelago. Corbey make uses of a set of archival documents, missionary archive and Dutch colonial archives besides other sources in connection to the ethnogra- phic collections he is studying. -
Control and Prosperity: the Teak Business in Siam 1880S–1932 Dissertation Zur Erlangung Des Grades Des Doktors Der Philosophie
Control and Prosperity: The Teak Business in Siam 1880s–1932 Dissertation zur Erlangung des Grades des Doktors der Philosophie an der Fakultät Geisteswissenschaften der Universität Hamburg im Promotionsfach Geschichte Südostasiens (Southeast Asian History) vorgelegt von Amnuayvit Thitibordin aus Chiang Rai Hamburg, 2016 Gutachter Prof. Dr. Volker Grabowsky Gutachter Prof. Dr. Jan van der Putten Ort und Datum der Disputation: Hamburg, 13. Juli 2016 Table of Content Acknowledgement I Abstract III Zusammenfassung IV Abbreviations and Acronyms V Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Rationale 1 1.2 Literature Review 4 1.2.1 Teak as Political Interaction 5 1.2.2 Siam: Teak in the Economy and Nation-State of Southeast Asia 9 1.2.3 Northern Siam: Current Status of Knowledge 14 1.3 Research Concepts 16 1.3.1 Political Economy 16 1.3.2 Economic History and Business History 18 1.4 Source and Information 21 1.4.1 Thai Primary Sources 23 1.4.2 British Foreign Office Documents 23 1.4.2.1 Foreign Office Confidential Print 24 1.4.2.2 Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance 24 1.4.3 Business Documents 25 1.5 Structure of the Thesis 25 1.6 Thai Transcription System and Spelling Variations 29 Part I Control Chapter 2 Macro Economy and the Political Control of Teak 30 2.1 The Impact of the Bowring Treaty on the Siamese Economy 30 2.2 The Bowring Treaty and the Government’s Budget Problem 36 2.3 The Pak Nam Incident of 1893 and the Contestation of Northern Siam 41 2.4 Conclusion 52 Chapter 3 The Teak Business and the Integration of the Lan Na Principalities -
To All Who Care About the Serious Problem of Extreme Mining in Delicate Environments in Arizona
TO ALL WHO CARE ABOUT THE SERIOUS PROBLEM OF EXTREME MINING IN DELICATE ENVIRONMENTS IN ARIZONA The academic community, even into other countries, is a part of the larger community of individuals that is seriously concerned about the possibility of intensive mining in southeastern Arizona, where water is very short and precious, and biodiversity is unusually high. In addition, there is considerable concern about the fallout with respect to availability and quality of water for people, not to speak of the loss of the major, sustainable economy of ecotourism. Below is a document that summarizes some of these issues, together with the names of hundreds of academic signatories attesting to the concern of many who care about our environment, our state, and our country. The document was compiled and signatures obtained by Elizabeth Bernays (Regents’ Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona) during February to July, 2012, and letters of approval from signatories are available. THE PROBLEM OF PROPOSED OPEN PIT MINES IN SANTA RITA MOUNTAINS AND PATAGONIA MOUNTAINS IN SE ARIZONA Due to planned mines, southeast Arizona is threatened as a habitat for both wildlife and people. The biological diversity is higher than for any region in the USA, with its sky islands, washes, desert flats and grasslands creating a major tourism industry based on naturalists, hunters, hikers, bikers, and researchers. The Nature Conservancy's Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve is quoted by the Audubon Society as the one of the best birding locations in the entire country. There is a drought in Arizona, and severe drought predicted in the coming decades. -
Towards the Breaking Day. an Ethnography of Belian
Isabell Herrmans Towards the Breaking Day An Ethnography of Belian Curing Rituals among the Luangans of Indonesian Borneo Research Series in Anthropology University of Helsinki Academic Dissertation Research Series in Anthropology University of Helsinki, Finland Distributed by Helsinki University Press P.O. Box 4 (Vuorikatu 3 A) FI-00014 Helsinki University Finland Tel. (09)70102363 Fax (09)70102374 www.yliopistopaino.fi Copyright Isabell Herrmans Photographs by Isabell Herrmans and Kenneth Sillander ISSN 1458-3186 ISBN 978-952-10-7062-4 ISBN 978-952-10-7063-1 (PDF, http://ethesis.helsinki.fi) Unigrafia Helsinki 2011 Contents List of Illustrations v Acknowledgments vii 1. Introduction 1 The Frequency of Belian 3 Ritualization, Practice and Framing 6 Emergence and Tradition 12 Writing Strategies 16 2. Luangan Lives: The Order and Disorder of Improvisation and Practice 19 Who are the Luangans? 20 Field Work and Site 26 Mobility and Social Landscape 31 Ritual Repertoire 38 A History of Marginality 49 3. Representing Unpredictability 60 Dancing with Spirits 60 A Politics of Spirits 65 Truth as Experiment 70 4. Making Tactile: Ganti Diri Figures and the Magic of Concreteness 78 Ritual Imagery 79 Images for Spirits 91 Tactile Knowing 99 Epilogue 107 5. The Uncertainty of Spirit Negotiation 108 Negotiating with Spirits 111 If it Strikes . 129 A Falling Vessel 132 Extreme Measures 137 Buntang Again 142 Speaking from the Outside 146 Uncertainty and Representation 149 6. So that Steam Rises: Ritual Bathing as Depersonalization 153 Scene One: Following the Work of Itak Pantak 155 Scene Two: Fruit for the Caterpillars 171 Scene Three: So that the Sun Can Be Seen Clearly 179 Towards the Breaking Day 7. -
Phaniat History (Pdf)
Phaniat Royal Elephant Kraal and Village Ayutthaya, Thailand text & photos by Ken May A brief history of Phaniat and it’s surrounding area Text & photos by Ken May © January 2009 Index Background ………………………………… 1-2 Chronology of the Kraals …………………… 2-7 Post-Ayutthaya Period ……………………… 7- 10 Monument of Four War Elephants ………… 10 Old pottery kiln/ Brahmin shrine …………… 11 Phaniat Palace ……………………………… 12 Sapan Thamnop Ro ………………………… 12-13 Wat Borommawong ………………………… 13-14 Wat Chedi Daeng …………………………… 14-15 Wat Chumphon ……………………………… 15 Wat Mahalok ………………………………… 15 -16 Wat Nak ……………………………………… 16 Wat Sahm Viharn …………………………… 17 Wat Si Phun ………………………………… 18 Wat Viharn Song ……………………………… 18-19 List of Resources …………………………… 20 Map …………………………………………… 21 6 Background Siamese history is intrinsically linked with its elephants. This prized pachyderm features strongly in the Royal Chronicles and foreign visitors have long been mesmerized by the animal. Elephants are characters in countless folk stories and they appear on hun- dreds of temple murals across the country. Elephants have been used as work animals, vehicles of war, and incorporated into religious ceremonies throughout Siamese history. White elephants were especially highly esteemed; often seen as a Royal incarnate or an auspicious omen. The first record of a white elephant being captured was in 1471 during the reign of King Borommatrailokanat (Amatyakul 59). The capture of white elephants continued to be featured in later Royal Chronicle records. It is debatable when Siamese first began to train elephants and incorporate them into local culture. One theory is that the practice of domesticating elephants originated in India. A Greek ambassador to the court of Hindu Emperor Patna reported the practice as early around 300BC (Garnier 57). -
SCA-UK Newsletter Volume 11, 13 December 2015 SCA-UK Newsletter Vol
SCA-UK Newsletter Volume 11, 13 December 2015 SCA-UK Newsletter www.sca-uk.org.uk Vol. 11, December 2015 Updates on Shan Studies and Recent Changes in the Shan State SCA-UK: Aiming for Promotion of Shan Arts and Culture The Shan Cultural Association in the United Kingdom (SCA-UK) is a UK based, not-for-profit, cultural organization. We aim to maintain and promote Shan (Tai) arts and culture through cultural events and to share our culture with Shan and non-Shan who are interested in Shan arts and cultures. We organize our own Shan cultural events like Shan National Day and Shan New Year Celebrations. We also participate in cultural events organized by other cultural associations in the UK. SCA-UK Newsletter Volume 11, 13 December 2015 CONTENT 3 New Year Message From the Chair 4 Photo News: The Golden Jubilee Birthday Celebrations of Ven. Professor Dr Saokhu Khammai Dhammasami and the Second Lik Loung Conference (Laikha - Shan State, Myanmar. 20-30 December 2014) The Achievement of our members in 2014. 5 A Reflection on the Extraordinary 50th Birthday Celebrations of Venerable Professor Dr Saokhu Khammai Dhammasami and the second Lik Loung Conference (Dr. Jotika Khur-Yearn) 9 A Visit to Laikha (Dr. Sao Khun-Hti Laikha) 11 Elephants Caryatid Stupa in Shan State (Venerable Aggasena Lengtai ) 15 Some paintings of a Shan artist in exile (Sao Sarmpao a.k.a. Feraya Ullathorne) 18 SCA-UK Bursary 2015/ 2016 (Dr Nang Hnin Nu Nu Kyi @ Dr Nang Nidarphorn) 20 The Khwan and The Ominous Calendar (Barend Jan Terwiel, Emeritus Professor in Tai Studies) -
State, Communities and Forests in Contemporary Borneo
Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph 1 STATE, COMMUNITIES AND FORESTS IN CONTEMPORARY BORNEO Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph 1 STATE, COMMUNITIES AND FORESTS IN CONTEMPORARY BORNEO Editor: Fadzilah Majid Cooke Published by ANU E Press The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Email: [email protected] Web: http://epress.anu.edu.au National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Cooke, Fadzilah M. State, communities and forests in contemporary Borneo. ISBN 1 920942 51 3 ISBN 1 920942 52 1 (online) 1. Forest management - Borneo. 2. Forest policy - Borneo. 3. Forests and forestry - Borneo. 4. Forestry and community - Borneo. 5. Land tenure - Borneo. 6. Land use - Borneo. I. Title. (Series : Asia-Pacific environmental monographs). 634.92095983 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Cover design by Duncan Beard. Cover photographs: Lesley Potter and Cristina Eghenter. This edition © 2006 ANU E Press Table of Contents List of Figures v List of Tables v Foreword vii Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Contributors xiii Part I. Introduction 1. Recent Development and Conservation Interventions in Borneo, Fadzilah Majid Cooke 3 Part II. Framework and Institutions 2. Expanding State Spaces Using ‘Idle’ Native Customary Land in Sarawak, Fadzilah Majid Cooke 25 3. Native Customary Land: The Trust as a Device for Land Development in Sarawak, Ramy Bulan 45 4. Decentralisation, Forests and Estate Crops in Kutai Barat District, East Kalimantan, Anne Casson 65 Part III. Local Interventions 5. -
Discovering Asia
Discovering Asia Discovering Asia Exhibition Catalogue 1st May to 31st July 2015 Royal Geographical Society of S.A. Mortlock Wing, State Library of S.A., North Terrace Adelaide S.A. Tuesday to Friday 10am to 1pm 1 Discovering Asia Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Inc. Email: [email protected] Phone: 61 8 82077266 Web site: www.rgssa.org.au Many books catalogued at: www.catalog.slsa.gov,au/screens/opacmenu.html Society Postal address: Cover: Chinese Ming dynasty emperor Wan-li on a richly outfitted horse towers over his ministers. PO Box 3661, Rundle Mall, Adelaide, South Australia 5000 Street address: Gold Coin Donation Mortlock Wing, Catalogue $5 State Library of South Australia 2 North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia Discovering Asia The Discovery of Asia - through 27B.C. - 395A.D. the Romans ruled a vast united empire. The west knew that there lay, many months journey eastwards by caravan route across the mountains and deserts of Central Asia, a land where the Silk People lived, but they did not know that the Silk People inhabited an empire as large and civilized as their own. ‘PEUTINGER TABLE'. Maps of routes for specific purposes — military or trade — were produced by the Romans, and this example is a 19th century print of a map dating back to the first century, revised, corrected and added to for the next 900 years. It has no overall orientation and no consistent scale, resembling in this the 'strip maps' issued for specific journeys by the Royal Automobile Association. The Roman map with the Society circa AD374, known as the Peutinger Table, depicts 'China' in the last plate, with a made up coastline.