摘要：Bernard Sellato, the author of this book, is Director of the Institute for Research on Southeast
Asia (IRSEA), University of Provence; a member of CNRS, the French National Science
Research Center, and editor of the Southeast Asian studies journal Moussons. As he tells us in
his introduction to Innermost Borneo, he ³rst came to the island in 1973. At the time, work-
ing as a uranium geologist, he came to know well the Aoheng and neighboring tribal peoples
of the remote Müller Range, where he was then engaged in geological mapping. Eventually,
after living for two years with the Aoheng, a community of forest farmers inhabiting the head-
waters of the Mahakam and Kapuas Rivers, he abandoned geology for anthropology, receiv-
ing his doctorate from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 1987. Today, he
is the undisputed authority on the smaller Dayak groups of the central Borneo interior,
including not only farming communities like the Aoheng, but also a variety of rainforest
hunter-gatherers.
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