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The Life of the Longhouse : An Archaeology of Ethnicity ebook

The Life of the Longhouse : An Archaeology of Ethnicity ebook

The Life of the Longhouse : An Archaeology of Ethnicity by Peter Metcalf
The Life of the Longhouse : An Archaeology of Ethnicity
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Author: Peter Metcalf
Page Count: 358 pages
Published Date: 01 Jan 2010
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publication Country: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780521110983
File Name: The.Life.of.the.Longhouse.An.Archaeology.of.Ethnicity.pdf
Download Link: The Life of the Longhouse An Archaeology of Ethnicity
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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. In this book 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.

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