essay
The Rungus Dusun
Essays on Borneo societies • (7) • Published In 1978 • Pages: 143-171, 234-241
By: Appell, George N..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a good summary of G.N. Appell's dissertation (Appell 1965, document no. 1). He discusses the domestic family, including the developmental cycle and its jural and ritual status. He also discusses the Rungus kinship terminology, the long-house community, and village. According to Appell, the long-house has minimal jural and ritual status, although it may have served a greater role in the past as a necessary means of defense. The village controls the territory around it and a family's access to land is based on their residence in a village. According to Appell the village is not a kinship unit although kin are found there. Appell also discusses rights to trees and the unique 'tree-focussed descent collectivities.'
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Arboriculture
- Dwellings
- Property in movables
- Production and supply
- Household
- Kinship terminology
- Community structure
- Religious offenses
- Theory of disease
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rungus Dusun
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1959-1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1959-1963
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kudat District, Sabah, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- G. N. Appell
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-241)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78040317
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Dusun (Bornean people)