Women's roles in traditional practices in Sarawak

This chapter reports on a project which examined and documented the role of women in traditional agricultural and other cultural practices among Kelabit and Kenyah communities in Sarawak, as remembered by people in these communities. The project identified the ways in which these traditional practic...

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Main Authors: Giridharan, Beena, Gribble, Susan Joan
Other Authors: CIBC, Curtin University
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Curtin University of Technology 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41349
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description This chapter reports on a project which examined and documented the role of women in traditional agricultural and other cultural practices among Kelabit and Kenyah communities in Sarawak, as remembered by people in these communities. The project identified the ways in which these traditional practices have remained unchanged, and at the same time studied how these practices have changed due to cultural shifts. Ethnographical data gathering methods were used to collect data for the project, as such methods allowed the researchers to describe and define the cultural experiences and ways of life from the perspectives of the participants in the study who came from the Kelabit and Kenyah communities in Sarawak. The project focussed on how traditions have been, and continue to be, handed down in Kelabit and Kenyah communities. In particular, the study explored the changes in agricultural practices and why they have occurred, and the extent to which urbanisation influenced these changes.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-413492017-03-08T13:11:11Z Women's roles in traditional practices in Sarawak Giridharan, Beena Gribble, Susan Joan CIBC, Curtin University role of women Kelabit and Kenyah communities traditional practices agricultural This chapter reports on a project which examined and documented the role of women in traditional agricultural and other cultural practices among Kelabit and Kenyah communities in Sarawak, as remembered by people in these communities. The project identified the ways in which these traditional practices have remained unchanged, and at the same time studied how these practices have changed due to cultural shifts. Ethnographical data gathering methods were used to collect data for the project, as such methods allowed the researchers to describe and define the cultural experiences and ways of life from the perspectives of the participants in the study who came from the Kelabit and Kenyah communities in Sarawak. The project focussed on how traditions have been, and continue to be, handed down in Kelabit and Kenyah communities. In particular, the study explored the changes in agricultural practices and why they have occurred, and the extent to which urbanisation influenced these changes. 2011 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41349 Curtin University of Technology restricted
spellingShingle role of women
Kelabit and Kenyah communities
traditional practices
agricultural
Giridharan, Beena
Gribble, Susan Joan
Women's roles in traditional practices in Sarawak
title Women's roles in traditional practices in Sarawak
title_full Women's roles in traditional practices in Sarawak
title_fullStr Women's roles in traditional practices in Sarawak
title_full_unstemmed Women's roles in traditional practices in Sarawak
title_short Women's roles in traditional practices in Sarawak
title_sort women's roles in traditional practices in sarawak
topic role of women
Kelabit and Kenyah communities
traditional practices
agricultural
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41349