Material Culture Studies and Ethnocultural Identity

Bernard Sellato (1)

1 CASE - Centre Asie du Sud-Est

This chapter briefly exposes the changing focuses of material culture studies through the twentieth century. It then assesses the available corpus of studies in Borneo's material culture, proposing a rough periodisation of the types of publications and describing in broad categories the material productions examined in these publications. Finally, using some examples, it endeavours to shed light on the linkages between material culture, on the one hand, and social relations and ethnocultural identity, on the other.

Mots clés: Borneo; Material culture; Ethnocultural identity; Social relations; Trade

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Bernard Sellato. Material Culture Studies and Ethnocultural Identity. Victor T. King; Zawawi Ibrahim; Noor Hasharina Hassan. Borneo Studies in History, Society and Culture, 4, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Institute of Asian Studies; Springer Publications, pp.57-78, 2017, IAS Asia in Transition Series, 978-981-10-0671-5. ⟨10.1007/978-981-10-0672-2_4⟩. ⟨hal-02883153⟩