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Paperback The Life of the Longhouse: An Archaeology of Ethnicity Book

ISBN: 1107407567

ISBN13: 9781107407565

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. Peter Metcalf provides an answer by showing the historical context, using both oral histories and colonial records. The key factor was a pre-modern...

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