Reconsidering an ethnic label in Borneo; The ‘Maloh’ of West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Wadley, Reed L.

doi:10.1163/22134379-90003854

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“…Furthermore, the term is the prime ethnic category with which the Iban in the study area themselves identify, especially when they deal with the ethnic Iban across the border in Sarawak. On the constructedness of the Iban ethnic category in Kalimantan, see Wadley (2000a); King (2001). 3 Holding two sets of citizen documents (i.e., identity cards and passports) are officially considered highly illegal in both Indonesia and Malaysia.…”

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Borderland livelihood strategies: The socio‐economic significance of ethnicity in cross‐border labour migration, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Eilenberg

Wadley

2009

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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This paper explores cross-border ethnic relations as an important socio-economic strategy for the borderland Iban population in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Iban seeking more lucrative wage work have long used their ethnic identity to facilitate circular labour migration across the international border into Sarawak, Malaysia, a strategy which has also compromised their claims to Indonesian citizenship. Drawing on long-term field research among the West Kalimantan Iban, we examine the close interconnections among cross-border labour migration, ethnicity, identity, and citizenship, and how this plays into contemporary issues related to Indonesian political and economic change.

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Borderland livelihood strategies: The socio‐economic significance of ethnicity in cross‐border labour migration, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Eilenberg

Wadley

2009

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“…In a recent discussion of the 'ethnic labels': ''Iban', 'Ibanic', 'Ketungau', 'Desa', 'Kantu'', 'Mualang', 'Banjur', Sebaru'' and 'Bugau', deployed in various ways to refer to segments of a culturally and historically related complex of peoples in West and North-west Borneo, Gavin confirms that modes of ethnic affiliation and processes of identification are based on multiple and context-generated 'layers' of representation and meaning (2012, p. 107;King, 2001;Lim, 2001;Wadley, 2000). These identities are sometimes contested, primarily in the arena of local politics and status competition, and are contingent and contradictory.…”

Section: Iban Identitymentioning

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Ethnicity and Tourism in Southeast Asia: Culture on the Move

King¹

2016

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This paper focuses on the relationship between ethnicity and tourism and explores the wider field of cultural identity. The concern is to pursue a conceptual exploration of ethnicity, locating this exercise within a comparative regional context and in relation to tourism development. It then adopts a more applied position with regard to Iban sacred cloths in Sarawak, Malaysia, which have been transformed by tourism and other processes of globalization. It argues for the importance of advocacy and persuading governments to take ethnic identities seriously, acknowledging the role that emblems of identity play in building self-confidence and self-respect and ensuring that traditional knowledge and skills are sustained and that they are deployed in the development of local livelihoods and identities.

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“…In other words, identity is created and sustained in relationships, both in ideas and action, with others who are perceived and categorised as ‘not us’ or ‘the other’ (Boulanger, 2009: 19). Identities and ethnic naming are also often fiercely contested (Wadley, 2000).…”

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“…In a recent discussion of the ‘ethnic labels’ ‘Iban’, ‘Ibanic’, ‘Ketungau’, ‘Desa’, ‘Kantu’, ‘Mualang’, ‘Banjur’, ‘Sebaru’ and ‘Bugau’, deployed in various ways to refer to segments of a culturally- and historically-related complex of peoples in West and North-west Borneo, Traude Gavin (2012: 107) confirms that modes of ethnic affiliation and processes of identification are based on multiple and context-generated ‘layers’ of representation and meaning (see also King, 2001; Lim, 2001; Sather, 2004; Wadley, 2000). These identities are sometimes contested, primarily in the arena of local politics and status competition, and are contingent and contradictory.…”

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Identity, material culture and tourism

King

2017

South East Asia Research

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In this study of the relationships between identity, material culture and tourism some of the different roles of the anthropologist in engaging with the wider field of cultural identity are examined. It commences with the approach of the conceptually-oriented anthropologist in addressing issues of culture, identity and ethnicity. Then it explores the role of the anthropologist in an applied mode with regard to the ritual cloths of the Iban of Sarawak, Malaysia. It argues for the importance of advocacy and persuading governments to acknowledge the importance of material emblems of identity and to ensure that indigenous knowledge and skills are sustained and contribute to local livelihoods. Finally the study considers the anthropologist as tourist and the ways in which an informed mode of travelling, in this case engaging with North-west Coast American/Canadian Indian totem poles, can contribute to the development of a comparative anthropology of tourism. It is argued that comparisons between Sarawak and the North-west Coast in the context of issues of identity, material culture and tourism can contribute to an understanding of the ways in which items of material culture are deployed and transformed in globalising processes of identity construction and transformation.

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Reconsidering an ethnic label in Borneo; The ‘Maloh’ of West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Cited by 13 publications

References 9 publications

Borderland livelihood strategies: The socio‐economic significance of ethnicity in cross‐border labour migration, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Borderland livelihood strategies: The socio‐economic significance of ethnicity in cross‐border labour migration, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Ethnicity and Tourism in Southeast Asia: Culture on the Move

Identity, material culture and tourism

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