Cultural History In Focus | “The Ngorek of the Central Highlands and ‘Megalithic’ Activity in Borneo” by Bernard Sellato from Living and Past Megalithisms: Interwoven Approaches

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The Ngorek of the Central Highlands and ‘Megalithic’ Activity in Borneo

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Living and Past Megalithisms:
Interwoven Approaches

by Bernard Sellato

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Bernard Sellato

Bernard Sellato is a geologist (MSc 1973) and anthropologist (PhD 1987), former director (1999-2004) of the Institute of Research on Southeast Asia (IRSEA, now IrASIA) in Marseilles, France, and editor (1999-2008) of the journal Moussons. Social Science Research on Southeast Asia.

He currently is a Senior Researcher (emeritus), Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CNRS, EHESS, INaLCO), PSL Research University, Paris. He published a dozen books, including Hornbill and Dragon. Arts and Cultures of Borneo (1989, 1992), Nomads of the Borneo Rainforest (1989, 1994), and Plaited Arts from the Borneo Rainforest (2012), as well as a large number of articles and book chapters.

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Author | Bernard Sellato
Publication | Living and Past Megalithisms: Interwoven Approaches — pgs. 117 - 149
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Year of Publication | 2016