1st Edition

Report on the Iban Volume 41

By Derek Freedman Copyright 1970
292 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

The Iban or the Sea Dayaks of Sarawak have probably been the best known of the indigenous peoples of Borneo for well over a century. Much has been written about them, but until the results of Dr Freeman's field research were published by the Government of Sarawak and by Her Majesty's Stationery Office in 1955 there was little information on their methods of agriculture and their social system. The... Read more
INTRODUCTION, 1. IBAN SOCIAL ORGANIZATION: THB BILEK-FAMIIY, 2. IBAN SOCIAL ORGANIZATION: THE LONG-HOUSE COMMUNITY, 3. LAND TENURE, 4. AGRICULTURE, 5. THE ECONOMICS OF AGRICULTURE, 6. IBAN METHODS OF LAND USAGE, GLOSSARY, NOTES ON PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES, APPENDIX: IBAN KINSHIP TERMS, INDEX

Biography

Dr Freeman is Professorial Fellow in Anthropology in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra.