Tropical Rainforests, Traditional Societies, and Dynamic Continuums. Toward a Regional History of Ethnicity in Borneo
Abstract
Environmental and human features, and the interactions between them, in a key research region of the island of Borneo, are here all consistently regarded as continuums. Integrated studies, combining the biological and social sciences, of these continuums should provide an alternative view of the interactions between environment and society and, through a reconstruction of the eco-cultural history of this region, allow new insights into the history of Southeast Asia.
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