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POLITICS AND CULTURE IN THE MERATUS MOUNTAINS (BORNEO).

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Title/Author:	POLITICS AND CULTURE IN THE MERATUS MOUNTAINS (BORNEO)./
Author:	TSING, ANNA LOWENHAUPT.
Description:	1 online resource (648 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-10, Section: A, page: 3161.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International45-10A.
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
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POLITICS AND CULTURE IN THE MERATUS MOUNTAINS (BORNEO).
TSING, ANNA LOWENHAUPT.

POLITICS AND CULTURE IN THE MERATUS MOUNTAINS (BORNEO). - 1 online resource (648 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-10, Section: A, page: 3161.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 1984.

Includes bibliographical references

Two years of research among the Meratus Dayaks of southeastern Borneo provides the basis for an account that is both an ethnography and a demonstration of the analytic possibilities of a framework that highlights multiple layers of political process. Each of three parts examines the interaction of cultural commitments, political strategies and institutional arrangements in a particular context of Meratus social life. The dissertation challenges pervasive anthropological assumptions of cultural autonomy and integrity to stress instead the significance of local heterogeneity as well as extra-local integration in the development of Meratus culture.

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2018

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Cultural anthropology.
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Electronic books.

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520 $a The first part looks as how regional and ethnic politics contribute to the "internal" dynamics of Meratus culture. I show how asymmetric trading relations, administration, and national religious debate have each been involved in the development of Meratus tradition. I illustrate how Meratus leaders use a rhetoric of regional authority to legitimate local power. Finally, I demonstrate how conceptions of land rights have been differentially shaped by varying forms of local-regional articulation.
520 $a The second part explores the Meratus "social landscape" as an analytic frame that brings together social and ecological aspects of subsistence, personal and community histories, and local understandings of geography. Instead of analytically isolating swidden farming, I show the integration of swidden with other forms of economic activity, including forest use and market-oriented production. Furthermore, an understanding of both the internal form and the long-term dynamics of swidden-making "families" requires an analysis not just of swidden but of the articulation of swidden and other economic sectors.
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