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Belonging in Borneo: Refiguring Dayak Ethnicity in Indonesia

Belonging in Borneo: Refiguring Dayak Ethnicity in Indonesia The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2016 Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 95–101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2016.1152882 INTRODUCTION Belonging in Borneo: Refiguring Dayak Ethnicity in Indonesia Kenneth Sillander and Jennifer Alexander Politically divided into Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan), Brunei and the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, Borneo is an island of considerable ethnocultural diver- sity. The indigenous population is popularly divided into the two categories of ‘Dayak’ and ‘Malay’—respectively denoting shifting-cultivating ‘tribal’ non-Muslim groups of the inland and coastal-dwelling Malay-speaking Muslims—but both are broad general categories comprising many subgroups. Those who are commonly grouped as ‘Dayaks’ speak a large number of distinct Austronesian languages and espouse iden- tities that have been forged in the context of a complex history. This issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology features three articles on eth- nicity in Borneo. The articles were first presented in a session entitled ‘Dynamics of Ethnic Classification in Borneo’ at the conference of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies in Lisbon in 2013, along with several other papers not included here. The articles presented in this issue provide snapshots of Dayak ethnicity in different areas and contexts in Kalimantan. Through analysis of different aspects of ethnicity—ethnogenesis, intermarriage and ethnic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2016 Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 95–101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2016.1152882 INTRODUCTION Belonging in Borneo: Refiguring Dayak Ethnicity in Indonesia Kenneth Sillander and Jennifer Alexander Politically divided into Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan), Brunei and the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, Borneo is an island of considerable ethnocultural diver- sity. The indigenous population is popularly divided into the two...
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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2016 Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 95–101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2016.1152882 INTRODUCTION Belonging in Borneo: Refiguring Dayak Ethnicity in Indonesia Kenneth Sillander and Jennifer Alexander Politically divided into Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan), Brunei and the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, Borneo is an island of considerable ethnocultural diver- sity. The indigenous population is popularly divided into the two categories of ‘Dayak’ and ‘Malay’—respectively denoting shifting-cultivating ‘tribal’ non-Muslim groups of the inland and coastal-dwelling Malay-speaking Muslims—but both are broad general categories comprising many subgroups. Those who are commonly grouped as ‘Dayaks’ speak a large number of distinct Austronesian languages and espouse iden- tities that have been forged in the context of a complex history. This issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology features three articles on eth- nicity in Borneo. The articles were first presented in a session entitled ‘Dynamics of Ethnic Classification in Borneo’ at the conference of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies in Lisbon in 2013, along with several other papers not included here. The articles presented in this issue provide snapshots of Dayak ethnicity in different areas and contexts in Kalimantan. Through analysis of different aspects of ethnicity—ethnogenesis, intermarriage and ethnic

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