Tuked Rini
Subtitle: Cosmic Traveller - Life and Legend in the Heart of Borneo
Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9788776941307
Subjects: Cosmology; Borneo; Asia, social life and customs
Description: "This innovative and visually engaging study presents a legend from Borneo in which the Kelabit hero Tuked Rini ventures out into the cosmos to do battle in remote spirit-laden places, returning to his wife with the heads of his enemies. Accompanied by audio material and additional resources that will be developed on a companion website, the work uses the legend to explore Kelabit ideas about life and cosmology - ideas of power or life force, the world of women centred on rice-growing and the relationship of men with the wild. Especially innovative is the way it brings together an orally told legend and a highly visually-oriented exploration of the way of life of the people who tell it."