Adventures Among the Dyaks of Borneo

Adventures Among the Dyaks of Borneo
Author: Frederick Boyle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1865
Genre: Borneo
ISBN:

This book's description of Borneo's native people the Dyaks, a collection of hill-dwelling ethnic subgrouops, is full of condescension typical of contemporary European accounts of natives from the East. The book also delivers an appraisal of James Brooke's reign as the White Rajah of Sarawak since 1841.

Primitive Skills and Crafts

Primitive Skills and Crafts
Author:
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2007-08-17
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1602391483

"From craftsmen, artisans, archaeologists, anthropologists, and outdoorsmen come skills passed down through the centuries: fire making, camp cooking, basket weaving, pottery making, animal tracking. Now anyone can make glue from the yucca plant or make a juniper-bark berry basket"--Jacket.

The Gaze of the West and Framings of the East

The Gaze of the West and Framings of the East
Author: S. Nair-Venugopal
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2012-05-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137009284

This volume explores Western attitudes towards the phenomenon of Easternization, drawing upon Eastern perspectives and examining the impact upon contemporary culture to argue that Easternization is another type of globalization.