Research Catalog

Title

The forest, source of life : the Kelabit of Sarawak / Monika Janowski.

Author

Janowski, Monica.

Publication

London : British Museum, c2003.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• British Museum.
• Sarawak Museum.

Description

vi, 154 p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., maps (some col.), ports.; 31 cm.

Series Statement

British museum occasional paper ; no. 143

Uniform Title

Occasional paper (British Museum) ; no. 143.

Subject

• Ethnology > Sarawak
• Forest ecology > Sarawak
• Human ecology > Sarawak
• Kelabit (Southeast Asian people)
• Kelabit (Southeast Asian people) > Sarawak
• Orang Asal (Malaysian people)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-154).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The Kelabit : background -- 2. Clothes, hair and personal adornment -- 3. The Kelabit longhouse -- 4. The Kelabit hearth -- 5. Kelabit agriculture -- 6. Kelabit use of the wild -- 7. Life force from the wild : Lalud -- 8. Irau feasts : statements of status, rice-growing success and potency -- 9. Rice and the wild : gender, the rice meal and the generation of Ulun -- Conclusion : crafting a human world -- Plates -- App. 5. Kelabit Artefacts held in UK museums.

ISBN

0861591437

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library