1st Edition
Origins, History and Social Structure in Brunei Darussalam
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Prologue: On Brunei: fifty years later
DONALD E. BROWN
1 Brunei Darussalam: Origins, early history and social structure—a celebration and evaluation of the work of Professor Donald E. Brown
VICTOR T. KING AND STEPHEN C. DRUCE
2 Donald E. Brown’s structure and history of a Bornean Malay Sultanate (1970): the fortieth anniversary
A. V. M. HORTON
3 Donald E. Brown’s contribution to Brunei Studies and anthropology
VICTOR T. KING
4 A comparative analysis of the Brunei origin tradition with the wider Austronesian world
STEPHEN C. DRUCE
5 A tale of many Boni: Boni in the Taiping huanyuji (late tenth century) and Boni in the Mingshi (1739)
JOHANNES L. KURZ
6 Brunei through the Silsilah, Adat, Hikayat and Syair: Silsilah Raja-raja Brunei reconsidered
ANNABEL TEH GALLOP
7 Coronation ritual and foundation myth in Brunei: Sakai, Syair and Silsilah
MARIE-SYBILLE DE VIENNE
8 Brunei Malay: the sha’er reciters’ art
LINDA AMY KIMBALL
9 Filling the gap: insights into early eighteenth-century Brunei Darussalam from Dutch archives
KATHRYN WELLEN
10 Traditional titles in the Chinese society of Brunei Darussalam: a manifestation of a bilateral relationship
DATO PADUKA HAJI ABDUL LATIF BIN HAJI IBRAHIM
Index
Biography
Victor T. King is Professor of Borneo Studies at the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, and Emeritus Professor of South East Asian Studies, University of Leeds, UK. He is the co-author of The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia (Routledge 2006) and co-editor of the Routledge series Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia.
Stephen C. Druce is programme leader in graduate studies and research at the Academy of Brunei Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. He is the author of The Lands West of the Lakes: A History of the Ajattappareng Kingdoms of South Sulawesi, 1200 to 1600 CE (2009).
