Historical changes in basin society in Borneo: spatial features of ethnic relations

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520896
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Human geography
• Research Institution: Osaka City University
• Principal Investigator: Soda Ryoji 大阪市立大学, 大学院文学研究科, 准教授 (30325138)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 流域社会 / 民族間関係 / マレーシア / サラワク / マイグレーション・ヒストリー / 分水嶺 / 流域間ネットワーク

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Most of indigenous villages in inland Borneo are located along major rivers, where people with different ethnic identities are intermingled. The meso-scale spatial unit called "basin society" has been an arena for various family/ethnic groups to build a kind of region-based (riverine) community. On the other hand, we could find that some villages at a great distance have maintained social networks through their frequent move between different river systems over the mountain. Within a river system local-based community beyond ethnic/language differences, whereas trans-basin social networks are strongly dependent on kinship/ethnic relations. In order to understand the social composition in Borneo, it is necessary to examine both ethnic and regional communities in detail.

Free Research Field

地理学