The headman was a woman : the gender egalitarian Batek of Malaysia
Kirk M. Endicott (Author, Filmmaker, Narrator), Karen Lampell Endicott (Author)
"A comprehensive ethnography of one of the few remaining hunting and gathering peoples of Southeast Asia, The Headman Was a Woman presents the gender concepts, roles, and relations of the highly egalitarian Batek of Peninsular Malaysia. Based on longtime fieldwork, the book describes the lives of Batek men and women in the tropical rainforest, and includes discussions of fieldwork, hunting and gathering, social organization, religion, gender, nonviolence, and cultural persistence in the face of a changing landscape"--Page 4 of cover
Print Book, English, 2012
Center for Orang Asli Concerns, Subang Jaya, Malaysia, 2012