Nomads of the Borneo Rainforest The Economics, Politics, and Ideology of Settling Down |
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Author:
| Sellato, Bernard |
ISBN: | 978-0-585-24992-6 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1994 |
Publisher: | Ebsco Publishing
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $36.00 |
Book Description:
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Describes the process by which nomadic hunters of the Borneo rainforest have become sedentary and taken up subsistence farming and trading. Anthropologist Sellato has spent most of the past 20 years among the several groups, and emphasizes how the nomadic ideology survives to create a culture that is significantly different both from the previous way of life and from the downriver peoples with different heritages. First published in French in 1989. Annotation copyright by Book News,...
More DescriptionDescribes the process by which nomadic hunters of the Borneo rainforest have become sedentary and taken up subsistence farming and trading. Anthropologist Sellato has spent most of the past 20 years among the several groups, and emphasizes how the nomadic ideology survives to create a culture that is significantly different both from the previous way of life and from the downriver peoples with different heritages. First published in French in 1989. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR