Beyond the Green Myth: Borneo’s Hunter-Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century Music and provides a clear analysis

and provides a clear analysis of the close relationship between religion

evocative narrative about the violence and radicalism of the 1970s in Thailand

“Despite the quite substantial literature on the Hmong

The publication of the original research prompted a political storm

The songs are presented in simplified form but also appear as they do in the actual singing situations

Beyond the Green Myth: Borneo’s Hunter-Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century Music and provides a clear analysisPeter Sercombe and Bernard Sellato 2007. 398 pp, 15x23 cm Borneo, with its tales of White Rajahs and tribes of headhunters, has long excited the Western imagination. Today, however, there is another green imagination at work. Mention of the island is more likely to evoke images of tropical deforestation and concern about the cruel dispossession and displacement of indigenous peoples who once lived in relative harmony with their environment. It is