Beyond the Green Myth: Borneo’s Hunter-Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century Music and with an intractable problem

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Beyond the Green Myth: Borneo’s Hunter-Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century Music and with an intractable problemPeter Sercombe and Bernard Sellato 2007. 398 pp, 15x23 cm Borneo, with its tales of White Rajahs and tribes of headhunters, has long excited the Western imagination. Today, however, there is another green imagination at work. Mention of the island is more likely to evoke images of tropical deforestation and concern about the cruel dispossession and displacement of indigenous peoples who once lived in relative harmony with their environment. It is