Iban agriculture
Book 1955 • Freeman, Derek

Iban • Asia > Southeast Asia
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 ...

The family system of the Iban of Borneo
essay 1958 • Freeman, Derek

Iban • Asia > Southeast Asia
This paper concerns the BILEK family among the Iban. Material is given on the composition of the group, the principles of recruitment into it, and the means by which partition of one BILEK family into two occurs....

Iban pottery
article 1957 • Freeman, Derek

Iban • Asia > Southeast Asia
This article is a report on pottery making and related beliefs among the Iban. Notes are arranged numerically at the end of the text, pp. 175-176. Notes for the plates will be found on pp. 173-175. Mr. Freeman is a Reader in Anthropology at the Austr...

Report on the Iban of Sarawak
Book 1955 • Freeman, Derek

Iban • Asia > Southeast Asia
Only the first volume of this work is included here. Volume 1 deals with Iban social organization, in particular with the Iban Bilek-family and the long house community. In addition to the physical type and location of the Iban community house struct...

The Iban
book chapter 1958 • Freeman, Derek

Iban • Asia > Southeast Asia
Approximately half of the article deals with a generalized account of Iban family and kinship structure which duplicates information already available in 15: Freeman. Consequently these sections (pp. 1-24, 43-44) have not been included. The remainder...

Some reflections on the nature of Iban society
Book 1981 • Freeman, Derek

Iban • Asia > Southeast Asia
Freeman describes Iban society as 'classless and egalitarian;' a conclusion confirmed by most others working in the region. In 1980 Jèrôme Rousseau stated that the Iban have a hereditary stratified society similar in many respects to that of the Kaya...