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The life of the longhouse : = an archaeology of ethnicity /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The life of the longhouse :/ Peter Metcalf.
其他題名:	an archaeology of ethnicity /
作者:	Metcalf, Peter,
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (xi, 345 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
附註:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
標題:	Community life - History. - Borneo -
標題:	Brunei - Commerce -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511657467
ISBN:	9780511657467 (ebook)

The life of the longhouse : = an archaeology of ethnicity /
Metcalf, Peter,

The life of the longhouse :an archaeology of ethnicity /Peter Metcalf. - 1 online resource (xi, 345 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The problem : ethnicity and community -- pt. 1. Longhouses. Longhouses -- Longhouse communities -- The coming of the Brooke Raj -- pt. 2. Longhouses and leaders. Aban Jau's career -- Aban Jau's successors -- pt. 3. Longhouse and trade. The sultan's fence -- Premodern upriver trade -- pt. 4. Longhouse populations. The linguistic data -- Disease, slavery, assimilation, annihilation -- pt. 5. Longhouses and ritual. The ritual consensus -- The ritual operator -- The impresarios of the ancestors -- pt. 6. Longhouses and the state. Longhouses during the Raj -- Longhouses after the Raj -- Conclusion: The general and the particular.

For two centuries, travellers were amazed at the massive buildings found along the rivers that flow from the mountainous interior of Borneo. They concentrated hundreds of people under one roof, in the middle of empty rainforests. There was no practical necessity for this arrangement, and it remains a mystery. In this book Peter Metcalf provides an answer by showing the historical context, using both oral histories and colonial records. The key factor was a pre-modern trading system that funneled rare and exotic jungle products to China via the ancient coastal city of Brunei. Meanwhile the elite manufactured goods traded upriver shaped the political and religious institutions of longhouse society. However, the apparent permanence of longhouses was an illusion. In historical terms, longhouse communities were both mobile and labile, and the patterns of ethnicity they created more closely resemble the contemporary world than any stereotype of 'tribal' societies.

ISBN: 9780511657467 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

801262
Community life
--History.--BorneoSubjects--Geographical Terms:

801261
Brunei
--Commerce

LC Class. No.: DS646.3 / .M47 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 305.89009598/3

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