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Borneo and Beyond: Reflections on Borneo Studies, Anthropology and the Social Sciences
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In many respects, this paper is a starting point in the consideration of research on Borneo as a
field of studies which has both relied upon and contributed to the more general field of
anthropology and the wider social sciences. I believe that this represents the first attempt to
take stock of and to reflect on what has been achieved in scholarship on Borneo in the post
war period and it has also considered the post-war colonial legacy and what has been
achieved in research during the period of independence in Malaysian and Indonesian Borneo
and Brunei Darussalam and in the era of nation-building and development. In presenting an
overview of the field I have reflected on the literature and attempted to arrange and evaluate
it in a more consistent and ordered fashion. I have used an overlapping set of organisational
principles based on chronology, themes, individual legacies and contributions, and debates
and controversies. There is much more I could have referred to and discussed in this
introductory overview but the intention has been to stimulate reflection and debate on the
development of our understanding about the societies and cultures of Borneo since the 1940s.
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Date:
2013
Authors:
Victor T. King
Publisher:
Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam
