Borneo's Voices & Stories
Calvin JemarangI write about how written records create the categories people are then forced to live inside. It is sort of a paper cage. My evidence comes from Sarawak, where I hold sources nobody else has.
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Beketan or Bagatan? One people, two names, and the records you miss if you search for only one
How this works. This weekly serial is free to read or listen to. Subscribe and each story arrives in your inbox or in the Substack app. Every story comes with a short author’s note on how it was put together, so you can read the research an...
Three names for an ape, and one for a tiger that is gone from Borneo
Illustration of orangutan by Google Gemini.
The assumption is a natural one. Orang utan is Malay, after all: orang is “person” and hutan is “forest”, so the ape is a person of the forest, and most of us have taken this to be its old local...
David Padang Tembaga and the Kenyah Problem
What English names sound like in Malay, and why a colonial diarist should have checked his own first
What is in a name? Why does an observation about names always fascinate us?
Those forlorn years
I took the above photo in 2007 and today is 2026 - long ago.
I took the above photo in 2007 and today is 2026 - long ago. If this photo were print, the edges would have gone soft from handling by now, the corners bent from being pulled out...
Last reprint of Punan Myths and Legends
This will be the final run of this historic Punan book
People’s interest in the Punan has steadily grown over the years. The other day, I overheard a conversation between two girls scrolling through their Instagram feeds. They saw a photog...
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Writer from Sarawak, Malaysia—where the jungle is thick, the coffee is strong, and my daughter thinks sleep is optional.
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