Slashed and burned: war, environment, and resource insecurity in West Borneo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
European colonial efforts to pacify ‘rebellious’ Iban in western Borneo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced chronic resource insecurity and may have contributed to the recorded destructiveness of Iban swidden cultivation. Negative European opinions towards swiddening ma...
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| description | European colonial efforts to pacify ‘rebellious’ Iban in western Borneo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced chronic resource insecurity and may have contributed to the recorded destructiveness of Iban swidden cultivation. Negative European opinions towards swiddening may have thus been reinforced by a context that the Europeans themselves created. Drawing on anthropological theories linking swidden cultivation and Iban warfare, this article presents a historical case for the relationship between pacification, resource insecurity, and swidden destructiveness. It also re-evaluates Derek Freeman’s original diagnosis of Iban as ‘prodigal’ farmers, suggesting that there may have been more to Iban pioneering destruction than the wide availability of ‘virgin’ forest. |
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| spelling | CGSpace196192025-01-24T14:12:28Z Slashed and burned: war, environment, and resource insecurity in West Borneo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Wadley, R.L. shifting cultivation natural resources forest resources ethnic groups war colonization history European colonial efforts to pacify ‘rebellious’ Iban in western Borneo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced chronic resource insecurity and may have contributed to the recorded destructiveness of Iban swidden cultivation. Negative European opinions towards swiddening may have thus been reinforced by a context that the Europeans themselves created. Drawing on anthropological theories linking swidden cultivation and Iban warfare, this article presents a historical case for the relationship between pacification, resource insecurity, and swidden destructiveness. It also re-evaluates Derek Freeman’s original diagnosis of Iban as ‘prodigal’ farmers, suggesting that there may have been more to Iban pioneering destruction than the wide availability of ‘virgin’ forest. 2007 2012-06-04T09:12:34Z 2012-06-04T09:12:34Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/19619 en Wadley, R.L. 2007. Slashed and burned: war, environment, and resource insecurity in West Borneo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13 (1) :109-128. ISSN: 1359-0987. |
| spellingShingle | shifting cultivation natural resources forest resources ethnic groups war colonization history Wadley, R.L. Slashed and burned: war, environment, and resource insecurity in West Borneo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries |
| title | Slashed and burned: war, environment, and resource insecurity in West Borneo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries |
| title_full | Slashed and burned: war, environment, and resource insecurity in West Borneo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries |
| title_fullStr | Slashed and burned: war, environment, and resource insecurity in West Borneo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Slashed and burned: war, environment, and resource insecurity in West Borneo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries |
| title_short | Slashed and burned: war, environment, and resource insecurity in West Borneo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries |
| title_sort | slashed and burned war environment and resource insecurity in west borneo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries |
| topic | shifting cultivation natural resources forest resources ethnic groups war colonization history |
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