North Borneo Ethnography - A Protest

Abstract

There has crept into the anthropological literature a canard to the effect that Cicero, in a letter to his friend Atticus, wrote, "DO not obtain your slaves from Britain, because they are so stupid and so utterly incapable of being taught that they are not fit to form part of the household of Athens." The truth is that Cicero never wrote anything so derogatory. What he wrote was '' . . . there is not a scrap of silver in the island,

Ethnics and Ethics in Southeast Asia

“…I was primarily trying to specify a set of people to whom my observations more or less applied and to avoid problems posed by less specific accounts (e.g. Appell, et al 1966). In fact, "Semai" is primarily a linguistic category of some (but not much) significance to Semai speakers.…”