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Culture summaryessay 1995 • Sutlive, Vinson H.
Iban • Asia > Southeast Asia
This is a culture summary of the Iban....From longhouse to PASARBook 1973 • Sutlive, Vinson H.
Iban • Asia > Southeast Asia
This source is a comprehensive account of the life of the urban and rural Iban of the Sibu District, Sarawak. The emphasis is on how the urban trading center, Sibu, has changed their values and lifestyles. Historical materials relate the Iban movemen...Keling and Kumang in townessay 1991 • Sutlive, Vinson H.
Iban • Asia > Southeast Asia
Sutlive's purpose in this paper is threefold: '(1) to summarize the sex role models of men and women in rural areas, that is, roles as they have been stereotyped based upon gender differences; (2) to examine egalitarianism as it has been described fo...Tun Jugah of SarawakBook 1992 • Sutlive, Vinson H. & Sarawak Literary Society
Iban • Asia > Southeast Asia
This work is the biography of an exceptional man, Tun Jugah, whose political career lasted half a century. Tun Jugah occupied the highest positions created for native leaders, offices that did not exist within traditional Iban society (p. 67). Tun Ju...The children of NISINGessay 1991 • Davison, Julian & Sutlive, Vinson H.
Iban • Asia > Southeast Asia
Davison and Sutlive re-examine the significance of headhunting as a male institution or prestige system, operating within the framework of traditional Iban society. The authors discuss headhunting not only as an institutionalized channel for the expr...