cam a22 4 4500 357791509 CHVBK 20191116032702.0 090908s2010 xxu 00 eng| 978-0-521-11098-3 hardback (OCoLC)845582884 (NEBIS)010601562 StDuBDS ger SzZuIDS NEBIS UZH-ESZ rda DS646.3 .M47 2010 305.890095983 22 LB 67420 rvk NF 8932 rvk Metcalf Peter 1941- (DE-588)1085163903 Verfasser aut The life of the longhouse an archaeology of ethnicity Peter Metcalf, University of Virginia Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2010 © 2010 xi, 345 Seiten Illustrationen Text txt rdacontent/ger ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen n rdamedia/ger Band nc rdacarrier/ger Formerly CIP The problem : ethnicity and community -- pt. 1. Longhouses. Longhouses -- Longhouse communities -- The coming of the Brooke Raj -- pt. 2. Longhouses and leaders. Aban Jau's career -- Aban Jau's successors -- pt. 3. Longhouse and trade. The sultan's fence -- Premodern upriver trade -- pt. 4. Longhouse populations. The linguistic data -- Disease, slavery, assimilation, annihilation -- pt. 5. Longhouses and ritual. The ritual consensus -- The ritual operator -- The impresarios of the ancestors -- pt. 6. Longhouses and the state. Longhouses during the Raj -- Longhouses after the Raj -- Conclusion: The general and the particular "For two centuries, travellers were amazed at the massive buildings found along the rivers that flow from the mountainous interior of Borneo. They concentrated hundreds of people under one roof, in the middle of empty rainforests. There was no practical necessity for this arrangement, and it remains a mystery. Peter Metcalf provides an answer by showing the historical context, using both oral histories and colonial records. The key factor was a pre-modern trading system that funneled rare and exotic jungle products to China via the ancient coastal city of Brunei. Meanwhile the elite manufactured goods traded upriver shaped the political and religious institutions of longhouse society. However, the apparent permanence of longhouses was an illusion. In historical terms, longhouse communities were both mobile and labile, and the patterns of ethnicity they created more closely resemble the contemporary world than any stereotype of 'tribal' societies"--Provided by publisher Geschichte gnd Sozialgeschichte gnd Politische Anthropologie (DE-588)4293325-0 gnd Ethnizität (DE-588)4220764-2 gnd Theoriendynamik (DE-588)4117201-2 gnd Soziale Schichtung (DE-588)4077574-4 gnd Kolonialismus (DE-588)4073624-6 gnd Handelssystem (DE-588)4501703-7 gnd Fernhandel (DE-588)4154026-8 gnd Mündliche Überlieferung (DE-588)4040600-3 gnd Ethnohistorie (DE-588)4124871-5 gnd Ritual (DE-588)4050164-4 gnd Chinesen (DE-588)4009946-5 gnd Kenyah (DE-588)4580391-2 gnd Iban (DE-588)1077850328 gnd Kayan (Borneo) (DE-588)4236588-0 gnd Berawan (DE-588)4519375-7 gnd Langhaus (Ethnologie) (DE-588)4271733-4 gnd Longhouses Borneo History Ethnicity Borneo History Community life Borneo History Brunei (Stadt) (DE-588)117603-1 gnd Sarawak (DE-588)14530-0 gnd Malaysia (DE-588)4037203-0 gnd Malayer (DE-588)4276790-8 gnd Borneo (DE-588)4007777-9 gnd Borneo Social life and customs Borneo Antiquities Borneo Politics and government Borneo Commerce Social aspects History Borneo Commerce China China Commerce Borneo Brunei Commerce History Online-Version Metcalf, Peter The life of the longhouse 978-0-511-65746-7 UESZ-20160303 nebis EN NEBIS 100 1- Metcalf Peter 1941- (DE-588)1085163903 Verfasser aut NEBIS 776 08 Metcalf, Peter Online-Version The life of the longhouse 978-0-511-65746-7 SWISSBIB 125684126 BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 NEBIS UESZ UESZ ULESZ ESZ OB: 1064