Book
Iban agriculture: a report on the shifting cultivation of hill rice by the Iban of Sarawak
Her Majesty's Stationery Office • (18) • Published In 1955 • Pages: xii, 148 , plates
By: Freeman, Derek.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a report on the shifting cultivation of hill rice, a form of primitive agriculture found throughout monsoon Asia. Freeman conducted his field work among the Iban communities in Baleh, a pioneering area located at one of the upper tributaries of the Rejang River. Freeman describes Iban community and family structure, settlement pattern, the land tenure system, and the migratory movements of the people. Freeman's description of agricultural practices includes forest clearing, sowing, weeding, harvesting, transportation, and storage of grains. Other aspects of Iban culture discussed are religion, folk knowledge, diet, tools and implements, trade, travels, and social values. Freeman has also made an analysis of the economics of shifting cultivation and the relationship between agricultural technique and land resources. The final chapter is a discussion of the proper population-land balance and suggestions for the colonial government for effecting stability in the native economy.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cereal agriculture
- 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.
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Robert Lee
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1949-1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Baleh, Sarawak, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- J. Derek Freeman
- Includes index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ibans (Bornean people)