Skip to main content
Disciplines
Automotive Business IT + Informatics Construction + Real Estate Electrical Engineering + Electronics Energy + Sustainability Insurance + Risk Finance + Banking Management + Leadership Marketing + Sales Mechanical Engineering + Materials
Events
DE
EN
Books
Journals
Topic Page
Marketing
Start single access now
Access for companies
EXTENDED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Published in:
Commodification of Nature on the Plantation Frontier Read chapter Read first chapter

2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

7. The Penan of Jelalong River, Sarawak: A Narrative of Migration and Adaptation

Author : Jayl Langub

Published in: Anthropogenic Tropical Forests

Publisher: Springer Singapore

Log in

Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.

search-config
loading …

Abstract

This is a narrative, based on oral testimonies and contemporary documents, of the migration of four groups of formerly nomadic Penan from the Usun Apau in the interior of Belaga district and Apau Julan in the upper Baram River, Baram district, to the Jelalong River in Sebauh district around the beginning of the 1800s. The Jelalong River was unoccupied and the Penan groups became its first occupants. Soon after their arrival, they adopted a settled mode of life, traded with Brunei traders and Chinese merchants at the confluence of the Tubau and Jelalong; they also bartered with the Vaie Segan who paddled up the Jelalong to the Penan settlements. Intense interactions with neighbouring groups resulted in several intermarriages, while the settlements have retained their identity as Penan places.

Dont have a licence yet? Then find out more about our products and how to get one now:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 102.000 Bücher
  • über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Automobil + Motoren
  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
  • Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
  • Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 67.000 Bücher
  • über 390 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Automobil + Motoren
  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
  • Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
  • Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe




 

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 67.000 Bücher
  • über 340 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Versicherung + Risiko




Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now
previous chapter Commodified Frontier: Jungle Produce Trade and Kemena Basin Society, Sarawak, in History
next chapter Diversity of Medium- to Large-Sized Ground-Dwelling Mammals and Terrestrial Birds in Sarawak
Appendix
Available only for authorised users
Footnotes
1
Interview with Tuai Rumah Julaihi Keti, Long Saoh, 2 August 2014.
 
2
Interviews with Penan elders at Long Saoh, 25 August 2012; and elders at Long Mekapan, 26 February 2012, with regard to food crop and cash crop cultivation.
 
3
Conversations with Tuai Rumah Ogus Sugun, Jambatan Suai, 21 August 2012; Penan elders at Long Saoh, 25 August 2012; and elders at Long Mekapan, 7 February 2013.
 
4
Interview with Tuai Rumah Julaihi Keti, Long Saoh, 2 August 2014.
 
5
Interview with Tuai Rumah Julaihi Keti, Long Saoh, 2 August 2014.
 
6
Interviews with Tuai Rumah Julaihi Keti, Long Saoh, 25 August 2012; and Tuai Rumah Resa Tungun, Long Mekapan, 7 February 2013. See also Profil kampung Long Mekapan (Long Mekapan village profile) and Profil kampung Long Saoh (Long Saoh village profile) for short accounts of the migration of the Penan Saoh and Penan Mekapan ancestors.
 
7
Interviews with Tuai Rumah Ogus Sugun, Jambatan Suai, 21 August 2012; Tuai Rumah Julaihi Keti, Long Saoh, 25 August 2012; and Tuai Rumah Resa Tungun, Long Mekapan, 1 February 2013.
 
8
Interviews with elders at Jambatan Suai, 21 August 2012; Long Saoh, 25 August 2012; and Long Mekapan, 7 February 2013.
 
9
Interviews with Penan elders at Long Saoh, 25 August 2012; and Penan elders at Long Mekapan, 26 August 2012.
 
10
Interview with elders of Long Mekapan, 26 August 2012.
 
11
Interview with Penan elders in Jambatan Suai, 21 August 2002; Long Saoh, 25 August 2012; and Long Mekapan, 26 August 2012.
 
12
Conversations with Penghulu Pau Tului, Long Wat, 25 April 2010; Pengajau Uma Along Joo, Long Singu, 30 April 2010; Pengajau Uma Matu Tugang, Long Jek, 2 May 2010.
 
Literature
Arnold, Guy. 1956. Prehistory of Usun Apau. Sarawak Museum Journal 7 (7): 166–181.
———. 1959. Longhouse and jungle: An expedition to Sarawak. London: Chatto and Windus.
Bampfylde, C.A. 1893. Rejang. Monthly report. Sarawak Gazette 23: 28.
de Crespigny, C.A.C. 1881. Visit to Belaga. Sarawak Gazette 11 (180): 4–7.
———. 1882. Journal from Mukah. Sarawak Gazette 12 (188): 40–45.
Gockel, Guido. 1974. The Long Pekun Sebop. In The peoples of central Borneo, ed. Jérôme Rousseau, 325–328. Sarawak Museum Journal, special issue, 22 (43).
Gueritz, George. 1882. Bintulu. Monthly report for March 1882. Sarawak Gazette 12 (187): 36.
Harrisson, Tom, and D.L. Leach. 1954. Towards the Usun Apau. Sarawak Museum Journal 6 (4): 65–95.
Langub, Jayl, and Noboru Ishikawa. 2017. Community, river and basin: Watersheds in northern Sarawak as a social linkage. In Borneo studies in history, society and culture, ed. Victor T. King, Zawawi Ibrahim, and Noor Hasharina Hassan, 365–384. Singapore: Springer.CrossRef
Low, Hugh Brooke. 1884a. Mr. Low’s November [1883] diary. Sarawak Gazette, 1 April, 14(219):30–33.
———. 1884b. Mr. Low’s December [1883] diary. Sarawak Gazette 14 (220): 41–44.
Metcalf, Peter. 1976. Who are the Berawan? Ethnic classification and the distribution of secondary treatment of the dead in central north Borneo. Oceania 47: 85–105.CrossRef
———. 2002. They lie, we lie: Getting on with anthropology. London: Routledge.
———. 2010. The life of the longhouse: An archaeology of ethnicity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Needham, Rodney. 1953. The social organisation of the Penan: A Southeast Asian people. DPhil thesis, Oxford University.
———. 1954. Penan and Punan. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 27 (1): 173–183.
———. 1965. Death-names and solidarity in Penan society. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 121 (1): 58–76.CrossRef
———. 1972. Penan. In Ethnic groups of insular Southeast Asia, ed. Frank M. LeBar, vol. 1, 176–180. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files Press.
Nicolaisen, Ida. 1976. Form and function of Punan Bah ethno-historical tradition. Sarawak Museum Journal 24 (45): 63–95.
Profil kampung Long Mekapan [Long Mekapan village profile]. Long Mekapan. n.p.
Profil kampung Long Saoh [Long Saoh village profile]. Long Saoh. n.p.
Rousseau, Jérôme. 1990. Central Borneo: Ethnic identity and social life in a stratified society. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Seling Sawing. 1974. The flight from the Usun Apau to the headwaters of the Tinjar. In The peoples of central Borneo, ed. Jérôme Rousseau, 331–348. Sarawak Museum Journal, special issue, 22 (43).
Vom Roy. 1993. The migration of Kenyah Badeng: A study based on oral history. Edited with an introduction by Tan Chee Beng. Kuala Lumpur: Institute of Advanced Studies, Universiti Malaya.
Metadata
Title
The Penan of Jelalong River, Sarawak: A Narrative of Migration and Adaptation
Author
Jayl Langub
Copyright Year
2020
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Book
Anthropogenic Tropical Forests

Print ISBN: 978-981-13-7511-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-13-7513-2

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7513-2_7