Pigs and people in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak

Janowski, Monica

doi:10.1080/13639811.2013.869383

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“…This partiality for bearded pig meat has been reported elsewhere in the literature (e.g. Bennett et al 2000, Janowski 2014. Taken together, these findings suggest that oil palm expansion is reshaping a variety of environmental, technical, economic, and alimentary aspects of contemporary KDM pig hunting and cultural practices.…”

Section: Oil Palm Expansion As a Driver Of Changes In Contemporary Kdsupporting

confidence: 81%

“…Bearded pig meat has been shown to account for 54-97% of wild meat by weight in Indigenous Bornean societies (Bennett & Sompud 2000, Chin 2001, Puri 2005, for whom wild meat can contribute to as much as 36% of meals (Bennett & Sompud 2000). Thus, bearded pig is the most heavily-consumed terrestrial game animal for Indigenous, non-Muslim communities throughout Borneo, and is also widely considered the clear favorite type of wild meat among many of these communities (Bennett & Sompud 2000, Chin 2001, Puri 2005, Janowski 2014).…”

Section: Historical and Contemporary Bearded Pig Hunting Practices Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bearded pig hunting also carries significant implications for spirituality, recreation, gift-giving, and social practices in many Indigenous Bornean communities (Harrisson 1965, Wadley & Colfer 2004, Janowski 2014. More broadly within Malaysia, pigs and pig hunting are situated at intersections of religion, ethnic identity, and geography.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Transformation and endurance of Indigenous hunting: Kadazandusun-Murut bearded pig hunting practices amidst oil palm expansion and urbanization in Sabah, Malaysia

Kurz¹,

Saikim²,

Justine³

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1. The widespread expansion of oil palm cultivation alters land-use, economic relationships, land ownership and access, and social practices across tropical forest landscapes globally. These shifts, primarily driven by broader structural forces of globalized commodity chains and transnational land grabs, profoundly reshape local socio-ecological relationships. 2. In particular, we focus on the socio-ecological dynamics between Kadazandusun-Murut (KDM) hunters of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, and native bearded pigs (Sus babatus; Malay: “babi hutan”), the favored game animal for non-Muslim communities throughout much of Borneo. We conducted 38 semi-structured interviews on hunting practices and meat consumption.3. We found that meat provision was the main motivation for hunting bearded pig and that most rural hunters—and almost half of urban hunters—consume bearded pig meat at least weekly. However, roughly half of respondents also said that their motivations included pest control (kawalan perosak), recreation (hobi), and gifting (hadiah) the meat to community members, including for KDM cultural events and celebrations. Only one quarter of respondents said that selling the meat was a motivation to hunt bearded pig and others reported a taboo on commercial hunting. Pig hunting using guns on foot and by car were the two most popular techniques. Numerous respondents reported that oil palm expansion removed pig habitat and reduced the frequency of hunting by increasing travel times to forested areas and reducing time to hunt due to work commitments. 4. Therefore, our results suggest that while bearded pig hunting is still a central part of KDM culture and diets, oil palm expansion has played a major role in reshaping KDM - bearded pig hunting relationships. In addition, other factors such as wildlife law enforcement and commercialization of bearded pig meat played roles in influencing hunting practices. In this paper, we argue that the social, environmental, and economic effects of oil palm expansion profoundly reshape the hunting practices of the KDM community in Sandakan District, Sabah. We also recommend policies that allow flexible, location-specific management approaches to ensure fair access to the dietary and social benefits of bearded pig hunting, while also promoting the critical conservation needs of bearded pig populations and habitat.

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Section: Oil Palm Expansion As a Driver Of Changes In Contemporary Kdsupporting

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Section: Historical and Contemporary Bearded Pig Hunting Practices Inmentioning

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Section: Historical and Contemporary Bearded Pig Hunting Practices Inmentioning

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Transformation and endurance of Indigenous hunting: Kadazandusun-Murut bearded pig hunting practices amidst oil palm expansion and urbanization in Sabah, Malaysia

Kurz¹,

Saikim²,

Justine³

et al. 2020

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“…In Borneo, bearded pigs are the only Suidae present and are considered to be common. They are a keystone bushmeat resource (Bennett et al, 2000; Janowski, 2014), but they also crop raid and are hunted as pests in oil palm plantations (Luskin et al, 2014). Bearded pigs are capable of rapid reproduction when resources are available and thus they are thought to be relatively resilient to hunting pressure.…”

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Integrating disparate occurrence reports to map data-poor species ranges and occupancy: a case study of the Vulnerable bearded pigSus barbatus

Luskin

2017

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Monitoring species ranges and suitable and occupied habitat are core components of biogeography, ecology and conservation biology, but it is difficult to do for rare, cryptic, wide-ranging, migratory or nomadic species. We present a transparent and objective process to combine multiple types of locality data (peer-reviewed and grey literature, museum collections, camera-trap inventories, and citizen science reports). We illustrate the advantages of this pooled approach by assessing change in range and patch occupancy for a data-poor and threatened nomadic keystone species, the bearded pig Sus barbatus, in Borneo, Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia. We used a collated set of all occurrence observations (n = 240) to create minimum convex polygons for forested habitats for two time periods. We evaluated confidence that a patch was truly occupied by the overlap among data types. We found that 62% of the forest habitat of the Sumatran bearded pig S. barbatus oi was lost during 1990–2010 and that its range contracted by 76%; the Bornean bearded pig S. barbatus barbatus lost 23 and 24% of its forest habitat and range, respectively, and in Peninsular Malaysia the 93% range collapse of this subspecies during 1985–2010 is more severe than the 33% habitat loss alone would suggest. We conclude that integrating data types can improve mapping of the ranges of many data-poor species.

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“…Benjamin 1979;Endicott 1970;Fox 1987;Kirsch 1973. 4 Janowski 1984, 2003a, 2003b, 2007a, 2007b, 2014a Janowski and Kerlogue 2007; Langub 2011. Although Needham (1976) has argued against any belief in such a life force in Southeast Asia, this is on the (in my view, mistaken) basis that such a belief would necessarily be grounded in a 'Western'-style notion of causality.Downloaded from Brill.com09/28/2020 08:08:51PM via free access…”

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Stones Alive!

Janowski

2020

Bijdr. taal-, land- volkenkd.

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This article explores the significance of stone in Southeast Asia, arguing that within the animistic ontologies of the region stone is a central cosmological concept. Stone, for the people of this region, is a locus of sentience, expressed through the presence of spirits. Cosmic power, which is equivalent to vital force, is believed to flow through the cosmos, flowing fastest in water and coalescing in stone. Stone is a source of power and life and is associated with origins and ancestors; the placing of stone is associated with status and becoming a significant ancestor. Southeast Asian ontologies, which regard the material world as made up of a constant flow of cosmic power, closely identified with life itself, do not separate mind and matter and see stone as alive. Stone is a lens through which we can view these ontologies and perhaps even question our own.

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Pigs and people in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak

Cited by 14 publications

References 5 publications

Transformation and endurance of Indigenous hunting: Kadazandusun-Murut bearded pig hunting practices amidst oil palm expansion and urbanization in Sabah, Malaysia

Transformation and endurance of Indigenous hunting: Kadazandusun-Murut bearded pig hunting practices amidst oil palm expansion and urbanization in Sabah, Malaysia

Integrating disparate occurrence reports to map data-poor species ranges and occupancy: a case study of the Vulnerable bearded pigSus barbatus

Stones Alive!

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