Tuked Rini : cosmic traveller : life & legend in the heart of Borneo
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Tuked Rini : cosmic traveller : life & legend in the heart of Borneo
（Nordic Institute of Asian Studies monograph series, no. 125）
NIAS Press, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-161) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The focus of this book is a legend that has been recited for centuries around fires in longhouses in the Kelabit Highlands, the highest inhabited place in Borneo and part of the area designated the 'Heart of Borneo' in 2007 with WWF support.
The legend relates the adventures of a powerful hero, Tuked Rini. He and his wife Aruring Menepo Boong (pictured on the front cover) are said to have led the people of a longhouse called Luun Atar long ago. While Tuked Rini led the men into battle against powerful spirits, she led the women in growing rice - the central crop nutritionally, socially and cosmologically.
The Legend of Tuked Rini is used as a springboard to explore highland life, kinship and hierarchy, the significance of rice and forest products, and cosmological beliefs - all now changing rapidly under increasing influence from the world outside.
Table of Contents
- Before the Story: Personally Speaking Voices around the Fire Landscape and Cosmos in the Legend of Tuked Rini
- The Legend of Tuked Rini: Prologue The Beginning of the Legend: a Rice Meal The Decision to go to War Getting Ready to Depart for War Travelling to the Highest Sky The Struggle with the Spirit Tiger Rock Into the Spirit Tiger Rock Doing Battle with the People of the Spirit Tiger Rock The Old Couple in the Highest Sky Intervene in the Battle The Great Spirit Mother Intervenes Bringing the Dead back from the Spirit World The Return Home to Luun Atar The Rice Harvest
- Understanding the Legend of Tuked Rini: The Bard Retells the Tale The Past as a Model for the Present The Cosmos Living in the Highlands Community through Food Ancient Ways in Modern Times
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