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Environmental challenges and traditional food practices: The indigenous lundayeh of long pasia, sabah, borneo

In this paper we focus on the Lundayeh indigenous minority in Long Pasia, Sabah by examining how their traditional food practices help them navigate environmental challenges. Deforestation and logging threaten the very core of the Lundayeh identity because the community’s livelihood as subsistence f...

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Main Authors: Kavitha Ganesan, Anantha Raman Govindasamy, Jane Wong Kon Ling, Shaffarullah Abdul Rahman, Kennedy Aaron Aguol, Jamsari Hashim, Bilcher Bala
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Language:English
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Published: 2020
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H Social Sciences (General)
Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26427/1/Environmental%20challenges%20and%20traditional%20food%20practices.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26427/2/Environmental%20challenges%20and%20traditional%20food%20practices1.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26427/
http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/etropic.19.1.2020.3734
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spelling my.ums.eprints.264272021-01-06T13:38:16Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26427/ Environmental challenges and traditional food practices: The indigenous lundayeh of long pasia, sabah, borneo Kavitha Ganesan Anantha Raman Govindasamy Jane Wong Kon Ling Shaffarullah Abdul Rahman Kennedy Aaron Aguol Jamsari Hashim Bilcher Bala H Social Sciences (General) In this paper we focus on the Lundayeh indigenous minority in Long Pasia, Sabah by examining how their traditional food practices help them navigate environmental challenges. Deforestation and logging threaten the very core of the Lundayeh identity because the community’s livelihood as subsistence farmers depends on hunting as well as gathering forest resources. This paper argues that, despite the continuous challenges, Lundayeh food practices, albeit exercised in modified forms, provide an avenue to revisit past traditions in order for the community’s indigeneity and sovereignty to survive and be safeguarded. The findings of this research project suggest that through hunting techniques, foraging, paddy cultivation, agricultural cooperative work, as well as religiously sensitive food adaptation practices, the Lundayeh’s relationship with the land endures, which in turn, secures the community’s indigenous identity. 2020 Article PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26427/1/Environmental%20challenges%20and%20traditional%20food%20practices.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26427/2/Environmental%20challenges%20and%20traditional%20food%20practices1.pdf Kavitha Ganesan and Anantha Raman Govindasamy and Jane Wong Kon Ling and Shaffarullah Abdul Rahman and Kennedy Aaron Aguol and Jamsari Hashim and Bilcher Bala (2020) Environmental challenges and traditional food practices: The indigenous lundayeh of long pasia, sabah, borneo. eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 19 (1). pp. 200-222. ISSN 1448-2940 http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/etropic.19.1.2020.3734
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language English
English
topic H Social Sciences (General)
spellingShingle H Social Sciences (General)
Kavitha Ganesan
Anantha Raman Govindasamy
Jane Wong Kon Ling
Shaffarullah Abdul Rahman
Kennedy Aaron Aguol
Jamsari Hashim
Bilcher Bala
Environmental challenges and traditional food practices: The indigenous lundayeh of long pasia, sabah, borneo
description In this paper we focus on the Lundayeh indigenous minority in Long Pasia, Sabah by examining how their traditional food practices help them navigate environmental challenges. Deforestation and logging threaten the very core of the Lundayeh identity because the community’s livelihood as subsistence farmers depends on hunting as well as gathering forest resources. This paper argues that, despite the continuous challenges, Lundayeh food practices, albeit exercised in modified forms, provide an avenue to revisit past traditions in order for the community’s indigeneity and sovereignty to survive and be safeguarded. The findings of this research project suggest that through hunting techniques, foraging, paddy cultivation, agricultural cooperative work, as well as religiously sensitive food adaptation practices, the Lundayeh’s relationship with the land endures, which in turn, secures the community’s indigenous identity.
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author Kavitha Ganesan
Anantha Raman Govindasamy
Jane Wong Kon Ling
Shaffarullah Abdul Rahman
Kennedy Aaron Aguol
Jamsari Hashim
Bilcher Bala
author_facet Kavitha Ganesan
Anantha Raman Govindasamy
Jane Wong Kon Ling
Shaffarullah Abdul Rahman
Kennedy Aaron Aguol
Jamsari Hashim
Bilcher Bala
author_sort Kavitha Ganesan
title Environmental challenges and traditional food practices: The indigenous lundayeh of long pasia, sabah, borneo
title_short Environmental challenges and traditional food practices: The indigenous lundayeh of long pasia, sabah, borneo
title_full Environmental challenges and traditional food practices: The indigenous lundayeh of long pasia, sabah, borneo
title_fullStr Environmental challenges and traditional food practices: The indigenous lundayeh of long pasia, sabah, borneo
title_full_unstemmed Environmental challenges and traditional food practices: The indigenous lundayeh of long pasia, sabah, borneo
title_sort environmental challenges and traditional food practices: the indigenous lundayeh of long pasia, sabah, borneo
publishDate 2020
url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26427/1/Environmental%20challenges%20and%20traditional%20food%20practices.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26427/2/Environmental%20challenges%20and%20traditional%20food%20practices1.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26427/
http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/etropic.19.1.2020.3734
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