Publications
In Press 2014
Janowski, M. (in press 2014). Tuked Rini: Cosmic traveller from the Heart of Borneo. Kuching and Copenhagen: Sarawak Museum and Nordic Institute for Asian Studies.
Jones, S.E. & Pearce, K.G. (resubmitted). A pollen morphology study from the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, Palynology (2014).
2014
Janowski, M. (2014). Puntumid: great spirit of the heart of Borneo, Indonesia and the Malay World, DOI: 10.1080/13639811.2014.869381. [PDF]
Janowski, M. (2014). Pigs and people in the Kelabit Highlands, Indonesia and the Malay World, DOI: 10.1080/13639811.2013.869383. [PDF]
Jones, S.E., Hunt, C.O., & Reimer, P.J. (2014). A Late Pleistocene record of climate and environmental change from the northern and southern Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, Journal of Quaternary Science 29(2): 105-122.
2013
Ewart, I. J. 2013. Designing by doing: building bridges in the highlands of Borneo, in W. Gunn, T. Otto and R. Smith (eds.) Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice, pp. 85-99. Oxford: Berg. [Pre-print PDF]
Janowski, M., Barton, H., and Jones S. (2013). Culturing the rainforest: the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, in Kathy Morrison and Suzanne Hecht (eds) The Social Life of Forests: Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Jones, S.E., Hunt, C.O. and Reimer, P.J. (2013) A 2300 year record of sago and rice use from the southern Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, The Holocene 23(5): 708-720. DOI: 10.1177/0959683612470180. [PDF]
Lloyd-Smith, L., Barker, G., Barton, H., Boutsikas, E., Britton, D., Datan, I., Davenport, B., Farr, L., Ferraby, R., Nyíri, B., and Upex. B. (2013). The Cultured Rainforest Project: Preliminary archaeological results from the first two field-seasons (2007, 2008), in M. Klokke and V. Degroot (eds) (2013). Unearthing Southeast Asia’s Past. Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference of European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Volume 1, pp. 34-51. Leiden September 1st – 5th 2008. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press. [PDF]
2012
Barton, H. 2012. The reversed fortunes of sago and rice, Oryza sativa, in the rainforests of Sarawak, Borneo, Quaternary International 249: 96-104. [PDF]
Ewart, I. J. 2012. Social and material influences on the Kelabit dwelt environment, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review 23(2): 69-82. [PDF]
Lloyd-Smith, L. 2012. An early date from a stone mound (perupun) in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak, Sarawak Museum Journal 91: 117-126.
Janowski, M. 2012. Imagining the force(s) of life and the cosmos in the Kelabit Highlands, in M. Janowski and T. Ingold (eds) 2012. Imagining Landscapes, Past Present and Future, pp. 143-163. London: Ashgate in series Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception. [PDF]
Janowski, M. and Barton H. 2012. Reading human activity in the landscape: stone and thunderstones in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak. Indonesia and the Malay World 118, DOI:10.1080/13639811.2012.709005. [PDF]
2011
Barker, G., & Janowski, M. Why cultivate? Anthropological and archaeological approaches to foraging-farming transitions in Southeast Asia, in G. Barker & M. Janowski (eds) Why Cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological Approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in Southeast Asia, pp. 1-16. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Anthropological Research. [PDF]
Barton, H. & Denham. T. 2011. Prehistoric vegeculture and social life in Island Southeast Asia and Melanesia, in G. Barker & M. Janowski (eds) Why Cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological Approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in Southeast Asia, pp. 17-26. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Anthropological Research. [PDF]
Barker, G., Hunt, C., & Carlos, J. 2011. Transitions to farming in Southeast Asia: archaeological, biomolecular and palaeoecological perspectives, in in G. Barker & M. Janowski (eds) Why Cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological Approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in Southeast Asia, pp. 61-74. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Anthropological Research. [PDF]
Janowski, M. 2011. Rice beer and social cohesion in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak, W. Schiefenhovel & Helen Macbeth (eds) Fluid Bread, pp. 183-195. Oxford and New York: Berghahn. [PDF]
Janowski, M. & Langub, J. 2011. Footprints and marks in the forest: the Penan and the Kelabit of Borneo, in G. Barker & M. Janowski (eds) Why Cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological Approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in Southeast Asia, pp. 121-132. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Anthropological Research. [PDF]
2010
Lloyd-Smith, L., Barker, G., Barton, H., Datan, I., Gosden., C., Nyíri B., Janowski, M., and Preston, E. 2010. The Cultured Rainforest Project: archaeological investigations in the third (2009) season of fieldwork in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak. Sarawak Museum Journal 88: 57-104.
2009
Barker, G., Barton, H., Boutsikas, E., Britton, D., Datan, I., Davenport, B., Ewart, I., Farr, L., Ferraby, R., Gosden, C., Hunt, C., Janowski, M., Jones S., Langub J., Lloyd-Smith L., Nyíri B., Pearce, K., and Upex B. 2009. The Cultured Rainforest Project: the second (2008) field season. Sarawak Museum Journal 86: 119-184.
Ewart, I. J. 2009. The documented history of the Kelabits of northern Sarawak, Sarawak Museum Journal 66(87): 229-258. [PDF]
2008
Barker, G., Barton, H., Britton, D., Datan, I., Davenport, B., Janowski, M., Jones S., Langub J., Lloyd-Smith L., Nyíri B., Upex B. 2008. The Cultured Rainforest Project: the first (2007) field season. Sarawak Museum Journal 85: 121-190.
Forthcoming – year unspecified
Barker, G., Barton., H, Gosden, C., Hunt, C., and Janowski, M (eds). (forthcoming). The Cultured Rainforest: The Archaeology and Anthropology of Forest Lives in the Kelabit Highlands of Borneo.
Janowski, M. (forthcoming). The dynamics of the cosmic conversation: beliefs about spirits among the Kelabit and Penan of the upper Baram river, Sarawak, in Kaj Arnhem and Guido Sprenger (eds) Animism in Southeast Asia. London: Routledge.
Doctoral Theses
Ewart, I. 2012. An anthropology of engineering. Unpublished Dphil Thesis, University of Oxford.
Jones, S. 2012. Late Quaternary environmental history from the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo: a record of climate, vegetation and land-use. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland. [PDF]
Leaflets and Poster Series
Megaliths of the Southern Kelabit Highlands: ways of marking the landscape, text by Lindsay Lloyd-Smith and Monica Janowski, layout by Borbála Nyíri. [English PDF] [Malay PDF]
Plants and People in the Southern Kelabit Highlands: Human-ecological histories of the rainforest, text by Samantha Jones, Monica Janowski and Huw Barton, layout by Borbála Nyíri. [English PDF] [Malay PDF]
Settlement Histories in the Upper Kelapang Valley: Archaeological, anthropological and historical approaches, text by Lindsay Lloyd-Smith and Monica Janowski, layout by Borbála Nyíri. [English PDF] [Malay PDF]
The Legend of Tukad Rini: The Kelabit culture hero, text by Moncia Janowski, layout by Borbála Nyíri. [English PDF] [Malay PDF]
Dragon Jars of the Southern Kelabit Highlands: Origins, heirlooms, and burial jars, text by Borbala Nyiri and Moncia Janowski, layout by Borbála Nyíri. [English PDF] [Malay PDF]
Fruit Trees in the Southern Kelabit Highlands: Planting ties with people and place, text by Katherine Pearce and Monica Janowski, layout by Borbála Nyíri. [English PDF] [Malay PDF]
Changing Material Culture in the Southern Kelabit Highlands, text by Ian Ewart and Monica Janowski; layout by Borbála Nyíri. [English PDF] [Malay PDF]
Exhibitions
Curated by Chris Gosden and Monica Janowski
Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (May 2013)
Sarawak Museum (provisional date: August 2014)
The exhibitions include artefacts collected by Monica Janowski between 1986 and 2012 and by other project members between 2007 and 2011, and artefacts collected by Monica Janowski 1986-88 for the Sarawak Museum, as well as artefacts from other collections in the Sarawak Museum; paintings by the Kelabit artist Stephen Baya; photographs by project members and from the archive of the Sarawak Museum; and videos made by Monica Janowski and other project members.
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