The Iban Dairies of Monica Freeman 1949-1951. Including Ethnographical Drawings, Sketches, Paintings, Photographs and Letters, Laura P. Appell-Warren (ed.)

Few anthropologists have yet published their field dairies; until now Malinowski’s dairy is considered as one of the most fascinating piece of ethnographical writing. Monica Freeman’s dairies document the Freemans’ long Iban fieldwork in Sarawak (June 1949-May 1951), at the time a Crown colony (the State joined the Federation of Malaysia in 1963). This book is a welcome addition to both Anthropological litterature and Iban Studies. Derek Freeman (1916-2001), coming originally from New Zealand...