Place, Person and Power: Lundayeh/Lun Bawang Pre- And Post-Christian Narratives.


 

THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL
Vol. LXIX No. 90 DECEMBER 2011
 
 
Title : 
Place, Person and Power: Lundayeh/Lun Bawang Pre- And Post-Christian Narratives.
Author : 
Jay B. Crain and Vicki Pearson-Rounds
Abstract:
This article explores how modernity for the upland peoples of north central Borneo provided new opportunities and presented new challenges to the cultural construction of place, person and power. To the traditional migration tale, which had authenticated both the distribution of communities and their relationships, was added the mission tale, which authenticated membership of individuals and communities into the kingdom of God. In recent years Pentecostal revivals have collapsed the distinction between these types of tales. Tales of spiritual visions deriving from these revivals link place, person and power in ways which transcend the tension between traditional and modern versions of power. Below, we describe and discuss some features of continuity in three narrative texts, the themes within these textual constructions politically embedded discourses. Our analysis situates these narratives within the colonial and post-colonial discourses about Lundayeh/Lun Bawang society.2 We then compare varying constructions of place, person and power in pre- and post- Christian spiritual narratives and discuss how these narratives are enacted as various forms of social practice.
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How to cite:
Jay B. Crain and Vicki Pearson-Rounds. (2011). Place, Person and Power: Lundayeh/Lun Bawang Pre- And Post-Christian Narratives. The Sarawak Museum Journal, LXIX (90): 1-22
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