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Iban Art: Sexual Selection and Severed Heads |  | Authors: Michael Heppell, Limbang Anak Melak, Enian Anak Usen
Publisher: KIT Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $80.00
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Sales Rank: 2334432
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 9.7 x 0.7
ISBN: 906832540X
EAN: 9789068325409
ASIN: 906832540X
Publication Date: February 2006
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The author describes the ikat, sungkit, pilih, and other forms of Iban weaving, the sculptures, the tattooing, metal forging, and other art of the Iban in the context of their oral sagas, stories, poetry, and love songs. He shows how art was used as a pre-literate scholastic aptitude test to ensure intelligent Iban married other intelligent Iban to increase the likelihood that their children were intelligent and were more likely to prosper. Women also chose men on the basis of their prowess at war to ensure the household, physically, was secure. That meant heads and headhunting. The book shows how weaving and headhunting came to be ritualized, the one encouraging the other, so that sexual selection was bound into the Iban's holy trinity of taking heads, growing rice, and birth or regeneration.
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