Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Poems by George N. Appell
Contributors
Preface by Amity Appell Doolittle
PART I: Reflections on the Life, Work, and Intellectual Legacy of George and Laura Appell
Chapter 1: The Impossible Dream, Vinson H. Sutlive, Jr.
Chapter 2: Randolph, New Hampshire: Remembrances of the Founding of the Borneo Research Council, Alfred and Judy Hudson
PART II: The Sabah Oral Literature Project
Chapter 3: A Retrospective on the History and Methodology of the Sabah Oral Literature Project, Charity Reynolds Appell
Chapter 4: The Future of Rungus Oral Literature, Anton Ploeg
PART III: Research Papers on Societies in Borneo in Conversation with George and Laura Appell
Chapter 5: How Humans became Mortal: A Bulusu’ Creation Myth, Amity Appell Doolittle
Chapter 6: Religious Change and Spirits as Agents of Conservation and Longhouse Sociality, Clifford Sather
Chapter 7: Sharing Experience in a Shared Landscape in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, Jayl Langub
Chapter 8: Iban Egalitarianism and Sexual Antagonism, Michael Heppell.
Chapter 9: Christian Missionaries Among the Rungus Momogun, Laura P. Appell-Warren
Chapter10: Reflections on Musical Instruments and Instrumental Music among the Rungus of Sabah, Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan, and Paul Porodong
Bibliography of writings by G.N. Appell and L.W.R. Appell