Book
Iban migration: patterns of mobility and employment in the 20th century
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1978 • Pages:
By: Austin, Robert Frederic.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is a detailed study of Iban population movements in the twentieth century (p. 21). Austin discusses the motivation for these migrations, the extent to which individual longhouses or families participate in the migration stream, and the attitude of the Sarawak government to these migrations. Of particular interest in this work is the differentiation made by Austin between the mass migrations from one place to another (PINDAH), and the journey made by young Iban men for the expressed purpose of acquiring material profit and social prestige (BEJALAI). In addition to historical background on internal migrations within Sarawak, this study also includes information on external migrations to such areas as Brunei and Sabah.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Composition of population
- Internal migration
- External migration
- Cereal agriculture
- Land use
- Forest products
- Labor supply and employment
- Travel
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iban
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Geographer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- twentieth century
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sarawak, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Robert Frederic Austin
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Michigan, 1977
- UM-77-17,945
- Bibliography: p. 224-241
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ibans (Bornean people)