From Hand Tools to Mobile Phones: The Lundayeh and Technology in Central Highland Borneo.
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THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL |
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Title :
From Hand Tools to Mobile Phones: The Lundayeh and Technology in Central Highland Borneo. |
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Author :
Daniel Chew and Jayl Langub |
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Abstract:
This article sets out to explore how and why the Lun Dayeh1 in sarawak and East Kalimantan, inhabiting a contiguous highland area in the heart of central northeast Borneo adapt to technology. Theories of modernisation, notably by Rostow (1960), depict a society moving through different levels of under-development and development from the agrarian stage to the modern, technological and mass consumption age. Ourcase study of the Lundayeh may at first sight appear to fit into such an explanatory framework although we will set out to show that this lineal depiction of the progressive stages of development does not necessarily apply. This article is a study of a community which handles the paradoxes of development, struggling to retain its unique lati ba (irrigatedwet rice planting) form of agriculture and coming to terms with modernity and technology in the form of motorised transport and mobile phones.
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| DOI: XXXX |
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How to cite:
Daniel Chew and Jayl Langub. (2011). From Hand Tools to Mobile Phones: The Lundayeh and Technology in Central Highland Borneo. The Sarawak Museum Journal, LXIX (90): 111-126 |
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