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The Life of the Longhouse: An Archaeology of Ethnicity Book

For two centuries, travellers were amazed at the massive buildings found in central Borneo, housing hundreds of people under one roof. Why this mode of residence was adopted in a region of very low population density remains a mystery. Peter Metcalf provides an answer by integrating the oral histories of communities with colonial records. The key factor was a trade system stretching all the way to China, via the ancient trading city of Brunei. The elite goods that made their way upriver in exchange for rare and valuable jungle products shaped the political and religious institutions of longhouse communities.Read More

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  • 052111098X
  • 9780521110983
  • Peter Metcalf
  • 14 December 2009
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 384
  • 1
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