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Nine Dayak Nights

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Outline: The Dayaks of Borneo have the reputation of a savage and primitive people, addicted to the gruesome practice of hanging the skulls of their enemies from the rafters of the "headhouses" where their young warriors sleep. Dr. Geddes spent two years, after the end of World War II, in a Land Dayak village a hundred miles inland from Kuching in Sarawak. He shared in the villagers' concerns and customs, and came to know their thoughts and feelings intimately. He presents these jungle people, whom he found to be attractive, affectionate and practical, rather than essentially bloodthirsty, in the main by means of a legend - the wonderful fate of a Dayak folk hero, Kipachi, as told by the village shaman during nine consecutive and festive evenings. Kipachi, in true "trickster" fashion, define giants, outwits a willy dragon, loves and leaves behind him many willing and helpful maindens, and finally wins his own true love from an unworthy rival - who can only bring back to her an inferior head. This legend and Dr. Geddes' description of the Dayak way of life in its varieties of work and play, coutship and family life, ritual and belief, reinforce and illuminate each other. Dr. Geddes is at pains throughout to show not just the Land Dayak's differences from, but their likenesses to, ourselves. He never loses sight of the common human base. His account, unpatronizing, thoughtful and spiced with a perception humor, is remarkable for its reflection of a primitive society through an uncommonly aware and civilized mind. The book is illustrated with original photographs and maps.

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572.9911 G295n

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New York, USA : Oxford University Press., 1968

Deskripsi Fisik

144

Bahasa

English

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572.9911

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