ethnic Chinese

Budget Single Story Bird House　[Logie Seman]

Posted on 2014/12/04 by nakane

Budget Single Story Bird House Logie Seman (Ex-Assistant Forest Officer, Forest Department Sarawak) Introduction 　A study was conducted of bird houses that are used to lure the swiftlet ‘burung walet’. The purpose of the study was to design a practical and innovative bird house that would provide better opportunities for rural or middle class people to participate in swiftlet farming and the sale of white edible bird’s nests, which is considered a lucrative industry. 　In Sarawak, wealthy people or companies initiated the construction of large bird houses, three to four stories high, which might cost between RM 300,000 to RM 400,000. An alternative is to build a single story bird […]

Recent Change of Edible Bird’s Nest Trade in Sarawak:
The Introduction of New Method and Sustainable Collection [Tetsu Ichikawa]

Posted on 2014/12/02 by nakane

Recent Change of Edible Bird’s Nest Trade in Sarawak: The Introduction of New Method and Sustainable Collection Tetsu Ichikawa (Department of Tourism, Rikkyo University) Introduction 　The purpose of this paper is to report and analyze on the transformation process of the edible bird’s nest trade in Sarawak, Malaysia. Recently the edible bird’s nest trade has been booming in Malaysia (e.g. Lim & Earl of Cranbrook 2002, Voon 2012, Chew 2013). This influx in trade is influenced by factors including: the Chinese food culture, the Chinese perception of health, the ecological knowledge of local people, and the multi-ethnic network in this area. These characteristics are significant in the trade of edible […]

Ethnoscape of Riverine Society in Bintulu Division　[Yumi Kato, et al.]

Posted on 2014/02/14 by nakane

Ethnoscape of Riverine Society in Bintulu Division Yumi Kato（The Hakubi Project /Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University） Hiromitsu Samejima (Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University) Ryoji Soda（Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka City University） Motomitsu Uchibori (Faculty of Liberal Arts, The Open University of Japan) Katsumi Okuno（College of Liberal Arts, J.F.Oberlin University） Noboru Ishikawa (Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University) Introduction 　The study site of this project is the riverine areas of the Kemena and Tatau Rivers in the Bintulu Division. This article provides an overview of the ethnic groups living along those rivers. However, the details of these people, their backgrounds, and their inter-ethnic […]

The Edible Birds’ Nest Commodity Chain between Sarawak and East Asia　[Daniel Chew]

Posted on 2014/02/10 by nakane

The Edible Birds’ Nest Commodity Chain between Sarawak and East Asia Daniel Chew (University of Malaysia Sarawak) 　Edible birds’ nest, which are moulded from the saliva of the aerodramus swiflets, forming white and black nests, are a highly prized culinary food product reputed to have health benefits. The uniqueness of the appeal of the nests is its association with the dynastic past of China as a special food for rulers and the wealthy, an appeal which carries on to this day as an expensive and prestigious food product for the ethnic Chinese wherever they live. The nests are collected from cliffs in caves and man made structures in maritime and […]

UNIMAS-Kyoto Seminar　[Dr. Daniel Chew, Dr. Jayl Langub]

Posted on 2012/05/17 by nakane

UNIMAS-Kyoto Seminar January 24, 2011 at CSEAS, Kyoto University 　Two researchers from the Institute for East Asian Studies, University of Malaysia Sarawak visited Kyoto University and gave lectures in the “UNIMAS-Kyoto Seminar.” 　Dr. Daniel Chew is an eminent historian in Sarawak, who focused on Chinese identity during colonial times. Mr. Jayl Langub, an anthropologist, has an intimate knowledge of indigenous peoples in Sarawak. He talked about the relationships between nomadic hunter-gatherers and longhouse residents through a traditional trading system. 　We found that the interests of both speakers are closely related to the focus of our research project, and anticipate working together to accelerate the research in Kemena and Jelalong regions. […]