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Author_Derek Freedman
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Chena System
cognatic kinship organization
Cognatic Ties
Consecutive Crops
Dampa System
Elementary Families
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ethnographic fieldwork
Fallow Period
Founding Families
Gat River
Iban agricultural practices analysis
Iban Agriculture
Iban Community
Iban Families
Iban Social Organization
Iban Society
indigenous land rights
indigenous peoples
Kapuas River
kinship theory
land tenure
Land Usage
Long House Community
Married Siblings
Padi Cultivation
Padi Seed
Secondary Jungle
Senior Section
shifting cultivation
social anthropology
Southeast Asian studies
Sut River
Uxorilocal Residence
Virgin Forest
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781845203016
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1970
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Iban or the Sea Dayaks of Sarawak have probably been the best known of the indigenous peoples of Borneo for well over a century. Much has been written about them, but until the results of Dr Freeman's field research were published by the Government of Sarawak and by Her Majesty's Stationery Office in 1955 there was little information on their methods of agriculture and their social system. The book has become a landmark in the studies of shifting cultivation and of cognatic kinship organization; and the ideas around which it is written have proved over the years to be a continuing and powerful stimulus in the development of kinship theory. The field work on which the account is based was undertaken from 1949 to 1951. Although fundamental changes have taken place in the life of the Iban since the book was first published, it has been decided to republish it substantially unaltered.
Dr Freeman is Professorial Fellow in Anthropology in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra.
