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Power and Prowess: The origins of Brooke kingship in Sarawak

Power and Prowess: The origins of Brooke kingship in Sarawak

Walker, J. H.

Hardcover

Series: ASAA Southeast Asia Publications

AnthropologyInternational RelationsSoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 0824825004
ISBN13: 9780824825003
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: Mar 31 2002
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In this significant reinterpretation of Sarawak history, John Walker explores the network of power, economic, and ritual relationships that developed on the northwest coast of Borneo in the mid-nineteenth century, from which a coalition led by James Brooke established the state of Sarawak.

Where many authors placed Brooke in the context of nineteenth-century British imperialism, this study perceived him in the context of Bornean cultures and political economies. Brooke emerges from the historical record as a man of prowess, with the author identifying important ritual sources of Brooke's power among Malays, Bidayuh, and Iban--sources that derived from and expressed indigenous cultural traditions about fertility, health, and status.For sale in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand by NUS (Singapore) Press

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