Beyond the Green Myth: Borneo’s Hunter-Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century Music and of modernization and development

and of modernization and development

This well-researched and readable history by Angelene Naw sets the life of Aung San squarely in the context of Burma’s historic struggle for freedom

The book reaches beyond the usual focus on metropolitan centres to examine urban life in a sample of middle-sized cities representative of hundreds of such urban centres throughout the Asian continent

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

Beyond the Green Myth: Borneo’s Hunter-Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century Music and of modernization and developmentPeter 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