The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo, Volume II - Henry Ling Roth
Title: The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo, Volume II
Author: Henry Ling Roth
Publisher: University of Malaya Press
Format: Hardcover
Edition: 1968 facsimile reprint of the 1896 edition, Volume II only
ISBN: None stated
Condition: Second-hand. Fair. Ex-library copy with British Council library barcode and ownership stamp. The blue boards show rubbing, surface marks and edge wear, while the front endpaper has tears, creasing and staple marks and there is dark transfer marking near the inner margin. The binding is intact. Please see photos for the exact copy available.
A substantial ethnographic study of the peoples of Sarawak and British North Borneo, originally published in 1896 and reprinted by the University of Malaya Press in 1968.
Volume II covers social customs, material culture, warfare, head-hunting, trade, languages and related aspects of life in nineteenth-century Borneo, with extensive appendices and contemporary ethnographic material.