Book
The Sea Dayaks of Borneo: before white rajah rule
MacMillan & Co. Ltd. • London • Published In 1967 • Pages:
By: Benedict Sandin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Benedict Sandin, an Iban and an ethnologist, tells the story of the Iban people from the time of their initial migrations into Sarawak territory, roughly fifteen generations ago, to the days of the Brooke administration (ca. 1841) when Western-style written records began. The material presented here is based entirely on oral histories obtained from family genealogies (TUSUT), on oral literature (e.g., the PENGAP or songs sung by Iban bards during major GAWAI or festivals), and from accounts given by native informants. Much of this work, as noted above, deals with the early migrations of the Iban and with their relationships to the populations of the areas into which the Iban moved. In addition to data on warfare, this book provides numerous brief biographical sketches of some of the outstanding leaders in Iban traditional history. An appendix at the end of this work presents the detailed genealogies of thirty Iban families.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Internal migration
- External migration
- Traditional history
- Status, role, and prestige
- External relations
- Instigation of war
- Warfare
- Aftermath of combat
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Indigenous Person
- 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
- John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1947-1967 (p.ix)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Pre-contact
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sarawak, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Benedict Sandin ; with a preface by Tom Harrisson and an introduction by Robert M. Pringle
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ibans (Bornean people)