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Because of my interdiscplinarian background, my research interests are also quite broad. Foremost is the anthropology of Bornean societies. This includes the emergence of the international borders on the island of Borneo. Of particular interest here the formation of national identities at border areas and how the formation of national identity effects every day interactions, kinship relations and economic relations between communities at the frontiers of international boundaries... I am also interested in political ethnography - governance structures and local leadership patterns among rural and small communities, and how these patterns are changing with the penetration of new ideologies (modernization, democracy and election) into rural areas. Conversely, how these new ideologies have been adopted and adapted by small communities into their own political, economic and socio-cultural contexts... expertise in impact study, unimas, polinebala, poline bala in multi discipline studies,..

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