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Format: Kulit Nipis
ISBN: 9838120456
Tarikh Terbit: 2001
Jumlah Muka Surat: 101
Berat (Kg): 0.274
Jumlah Muka Surat: 101
Berat (Kg): 0.274
Penerbit : Natural History Publication
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Peter R. Phelan, bom Richard Phelan in 193H In Kilmacow, Kilkenny County in Ireland, became Brother Peter in the La Salle Order in 1950 and came to Sabah in 1963. A teacher in various schools throughout his career in Sabah, and principal of St Martin's Secondary School in Tambunan during 1978-87, he has many sustained interests in the indigenous cultures of this fascinating slate of Malaysia once known as British North Bomeo. He is one of Sabah's resident authorities on a number of cultural subjects. in particular the traditional stone and wood monuments and the lol oli an or bobolian priesthood system of the Kadazan Dusun peoples, and is also a keen observer of the system of native law found in Sabah Author of a number of articles on various Ispects of Sabah's cultures and a book entitled Traditional Stone and Wood Monuments of Sabah Centre for Borneo Studies, 1997), he was given the 1980 Barwis-Holliday Award lor Far Eastem Studies by the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland for his essay on the bobohizan priesthood system in Sabah. He spent some 15 years at Tanjung Aru near Kota Kinabalu. then lived about 10 years in Tambunan and has lived in the Nabawan area since 1990. His interests were fostered through contact with a great number of tudents and their families in rural settings and an often lirst-hand experience of the many colourlul cultural events of the various communities
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