Tuked Rini, Cosmic Traveller: Life and Legend in the Heart of Borneo

by Monica Janowski

Book Overview

This innovative and visually engaging study presents a legend from Borneo in which the Kelabit hero Tuked Rini ventures out into the cosmos to do battle in remote spirit-laden places, returning to his wife with the heads of his enemies. Accompanied by audio material and additional resources that will be developed on a companion website, the work uses the legend to explore Kelabit ideas about life and cosmology--ideas of power or life force, the world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8776941302
• ISBN13: 9788776941307
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
• Length: 182 Pages