The Ethnographic Classification of the Dusun-Speaking Peoples of Northern Borneo

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

“…9 A similar situation can be seen in Sabah, where political leaders in the 1960s attempted to forge a political movement around the identity of Kadazan (or more recently, Kadazan-Dusun), which they proposed as a name to cover a large group of different native peoples. The movement ran into some difficulty because some people (such as the Rungus) who would have been classified Kadazan rejected the label (Lasimbang and Miller 1990; see Appell and Harrison 1969).…”