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DEVISE AND RULE: COLONIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE BORNEO DAYAK c.1860–1920
Author(s) -
Cleary Mark
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
singapore journal of tropical geography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1467-9493
pISSN - 0129-7619
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9493.1996.tb00081.x
Subject(s) - exoticism , colonialism , ruler , indigenous , structuring , sociology , colonial period , period (music) , ethnology , geography , anthropology , history , political science , aesthetics , archaeology , law , philosophy , ecology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
This paper considers some of the ways in which travellers, administrators and academics in the colonial period sought to categorise the indigenous groups of Borneo. It focuses on Sarawak and North Borneo between about 1850 and 1920, and examines the use of stereotypical images of exoticism, fear and loathing in constructing different categories of peoples in the region. The paper argues that such categorisations were important in structuring the relationships between ruler and ruled, and in the development of particular regional and local identities.