The Life of the Longhouse
An Archaeology of Ethnicity
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Publisher Description
The remarkable longhouses of Borneo remain mysterious. Metcalf provides an answer by integrating the oral histories of communities with colonial records. The key factor was a trade system stretching to China, via the ancient trading city of Brunei, which shaped the political and religious institutions of longhouse communities.