Title: The forest, source of life : the Kelabit of Sarawak /
Authors: Janowski, Monica.; British Museum.; Sarawak Museum.
Publisher: British Museum,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Kelabit (Southeast Asian people) Malaysia Sarawak.; Forest ecology Malaysia Sarawak.; Human ecology Malaysia Sarawak.; Ethnology Malaysia Sarawak.; Orang Asal (Malaysian people); Kelabit (Southeast Asian people)
Contents: 1. The Kelabit : background -- 2. Clothes, hair and personal adornment -- 3. The Kelabit longhouse -- 4. The Kelabit hearth -- 5. Kelabit agriculture -- 6. Kelabit use of the wild -- 7. Life force from the wild : Lalud -- 8. Irau feasts : statements of status, rice-growing success and potency -- 9. Rice and the wild : gender, the rice meal and the generation of Ulun -- Conclusion : crafting a human world -- Plates -- App. 5. Kelabit Artefacts held in UK museums.