This episode unpacks a remarkable — and long overlooked — chapter in Borneo’s past. We trace the deep, complex ties between the Punan people of Sarawak and the Brunei Sultanate, told through ancestral songs, marriage alliances, and the annual tributes once demanded by Brunei’s court.
We challenge a long-accepted anthropological account of Punan migration…
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