Where Spirit and Bulldozer Roam: Environment and Anxiety in Highland Borneo

This paper explores changing perceptions of the natural environment among the Kelabit, an indigenous people of the Borneo interior. It considers both traditional and post-Christian conversion understandings about forest spaces. The former animistic ritual practices of the Kelabit centered on a spiri...

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Main Author: Amster-Burton, Matthew (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. 2008
In: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2008, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 74-92
Further subjects:B Kelabit
B animistic belief
B Conservation
B Ritual Practice
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