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This book was first published in 1970. It is about a colonial state on the island of Borneo, known for its humanitarian ethos, which nonetheless depended on unpaid levies of headhunting warriors to enforce its security goals. The rulers were the British ‘White Rajahs’ of Sarawak; the warriors were Ibans, members of what is still [...] 
The Iranun, an ethnolinguistic group in the Malaysian state of Sabah (formerly British North Borneo), are a people whose origins and pre-colonial history remain a mystery. Although their culture is much admired and has been copied widely, their language is under threat, and with it their identity. Their traditional textile forms, material culture, musical [...] There is an old saying, ” Good wine needs no bush ” ; if this is true then assuredly Mr. Owen Rutter’s book needs no introduction. Nor if it did could I claim any special competence, for it is now more than a quarter of a century since I spent six months in the [...] Awaiting description |
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