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Wild People - Travels with Borneo's Head-Hunters (Paperback, 1st Atlantic Monthly Press Ed)
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Wild People - Travels with Borneo's Head-Hunters (Paperback, 1st Atlantic Monthly Press Ed)
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Discovery Miles 3 490
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Wild People is the story of one man's experience living among a
rare and almost extinct culture. The Iban are a primitive people
who live in the hilly jungles of Borneo'whose peaceful existence of
hunting, fishing, tending their crops, and worshipping their gods
belies a fierce legacy of head-hunting. This, however, is no
ordinary work of travel anthropology"if Andro Linklater takes us
into the heart of this world he also take us into our own, and the
clash of cultures he documents produces not only memorable insight
but ample and sharp-witted humor. The author's sympathetic effort
to truly understand this utterly alien and exotic culture is where
the book's greatest value lies. Far up the Katibas River, where the
maps grow vague, he finds a traditional longhouse agreeable to his
three-month stay, and a world that makes no distinction between the
physical and spiritual, animal and human, waking time and dream
time. He learns how to interpret the oracles of birds, signs and
omens of every kind, what gods to sacrifice to for a bumper rice
harvest. He takes part in a gawai kenyalang, a rare and complex
ceremony performed once in a man's lifetime to ensure his prestige
in this and the spirit world. He becomes involved"even in matters
of the heart. Seduced and beguiled by the culture he has come to
respect and admire, the author asks himself a genuine question: Why
not? It seems to work for them"they are not only handsome and brave
but happy as well. Wild People gives us a palpable sense of what it
might be like to live in a primitive culture. In the tradition of
such English travel writers as Colin Thubron and Redmond O'Hanlon,
it also tells of a personal journey"the story of one civilized and
slightly cynical man's brief and poignant romance with a dying
culture.
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