Fort At Lio Mato And The Life Of Government, Brunei Connections And Brooke Histories
This paper takes the history of the Fort at Lio Mato, recorded as being built in 1911 during the time of Brooke Resident R.S. Douglas and events leading to its institution, through the voice of a Kelabit oral history. According to the Kelabit oral history, "the life of government," ulunp...
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Pustaka Negeri Sarawak
2021
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/39482/1/Valerie.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/39482/ |
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| Summary: | This paper takes the history of the Fort at Lio Mato, recorded as being built in 1911 during the time of
Brooke Resident R.S. Douglas and events leading to its institution, through the voice of a Kelabit oral
history. According to the Kelabit oral history, "the life of government," ulunperitah began in the time of
Brunei rule in the Baram and continued with the establishment of the Fort at Lio Mato, opening of new
routes for trade and new alliances gained by peacemaking. This oral history provides an opening to
discuss two points: the perception of "the life of government" having its origins in the time of Brunei
rule, the role of local people in the making of the fort. This shifts the historical emphasis away from
Brooke records to a layered history at the frontier of the Ba ram district, which was the geographic and
economic hinterland of Brunei before cession to the Brooke administration in 1882. This is a history
not determined by territorial boundaries, but it is gleaned through people who moved freely across
vast tracts of north-eastern Borneo. |
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