Beyond the Green Myth

Peter Sercombe comes from an academic background in Applied Linguistics and Language Education. He has had numerous positions working internationally including Brunei, Malaysia, Turkey, Borneo and the United Kingdom. Sercombe has an interest in sociolinguistics and Austronesian languages, in particular Iban and Penan. Bernard Sellato has been involved with Borneo since 1973, first as a geologist and later as an anthropologist. A former director of the Institute for Research on Southeast Asia (CNRS and Université de Provence) in Marseilles, France, he is the author of numerous books and articles on the island (including Beyond the Green Myth, published by NIAS Press in 2007, and now Plaited Art from the Borneo Rainforest, due late 2011). Until recently, he was editor of the journal Moussons: Social Science Research on Southeast Asia.