Rural Development and Social Science Research: Case Studies from Borneo. (Book Reviews: General)
Wilder, W. D., Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
KING, VICTOR T. (ed.). Rural development and social science research: case studies from Borneo (Borneo Res. Counc. Proc. 6). xiii, 359 pp., maps, tables, bibliogr. Phillips, ME: Borneo Research Council, 1999. $35.00 (paper)
The eleven chapters (written by a total of twenty-one contributors) that make up this well-prepared and well-edited volume are strongly empirical and, as the title makes plain, they focus quite closely on certain parts of Borneo. In fact, they pertain mostly to Sarawak and, secondarily, to Sabah and to the Kayan-Mentarang Nature Reserve in the remote interior of northern East Kalimantan. On the other hand, the two end-essays, by King and Appell, …
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Article title: Rural Development and Social Science Research: Case Studies from Borneo. (Book Reviews: General).
Contributors: Wilder, W. D. - Author.
Journal title: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Volume: 8.
Issue: 3
Publication date: September 2002.
Page number: 585+.
© 1999 Royal Anthropological Institute.
COPYRIGHT 2002 Gale Group.
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