Adventures Among the Dyaks of Borneo
Adventures Among the Dyaks of Borneo

Author: Frederick Boyle

Publisher:

Published: 1865

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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This book's description of Borneo's native people the Dyaks, a collection of hill-dwelling ethnic subgrouops, is full of condescension typical of contemporary European accounts of natives from the East. The book also delivers an appraisal of James Brooke's reign as the White Rajah of Sarawak since 1841.

Primitive Skills and Crafts
Primitive Skills and Crafts

Author:

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Published: 2007-08-17

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1602391483

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"From craftsmen, artisans, archaeologists, anthropologists, and outdoorsmen come skills passed down through the centuries: fire making, camp cooking, basket weaving, pottery making, animal tracking. Now anyone can make glue from the yucca plant or make a juniper-bark berry basket"--Jacket.

The Gaze of the West and Framings of the East
The Gaze of the West and Framings of the East

Author: S. Nair-Venugopal

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-05-09

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1137009284

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This volume explores Western attitudes towards the phenomenon of Easternization, drawing upon Eastern perspectives and examining the impact upon contemporary culture to argue that Easternization is another type of globalization.