Beyond the Green Myth: Borneo’s Hunter-Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century Music This book analyzes the systematic

This book analyzes the systematic construction of the image of the Other

Timely and highly readable

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formerly Dean of the Faculty of Political Science Thammasat University

A timely and important study that is also coherent and accessible

Beyond the Green Myth: Borneo’s Hunter-Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century Music This book analyzes the systematicPeter Sercombe and Bernard Sellato 2007. 398 pp, 15x23 cm Borneo, with its tales of White Rajahs and tribes of headhunters, has long excited the Western imagination. Today, however, there is another green imagination at work. Mention of the island is more likely to evoke images of tropical deforestation and concern about the cruel dispossession and displacement of indigenous peoples who once lived in relative harmony with their environment. It is