by Lye Tuck-Po 18/12/2023

by Lye Tuck-Po 21/9/23 Crossover posting from my YouTube channel. People on this blog know me as a writer and a photographer. But you...

by Lye Tuck-Po 20 September 2023 This is a photo of my host mother Yi in Cambodia, photographed while she was working in her maize field...

by Lye Tuck-Po 20/9/2023 Report on the Punan Batu of Kalimantan (thanks to Bion Griffin for the link). I can't comment, as I've no...

I'm excited that Alice Rudge's new book (which is winging its way to me, so I haven't read it yet) is out: Sensing Others Voicing Batek...

by Lye Tuck-Po / 19 September 2023 In this blog, my intent was to describe Batek childcare. Except that it's rather boring. My writing of...

by Lye Tuck-Po / 18 September 2023 Excerpts: Neither the Batek’s way of life nor their children’s behaviour has changed radically....

by Lye Tuck-Po 18 September 2023 This game is called anthropologist-baiting. It is much enjoyed by Batek children, and is played whenever...

by Lye Tuck-Po 17 September 2023 What stands out in my memories of the old days was how firmly the Batek protected my fieldnotes....

I started "studying" the Batek in 1993, so this is my 30th year with them. For the past few years I've been working on a visual...

by Lye Tuck-Po 16 September 2023 It's the Batek's fruit season right now. There are innumerable species of fruits known and harvested by...

Loh, Francis Kok Wah, ed. 2023. Scholar activist Khoo Khay Jin: reflections on the Penan, Sarawak and Malaysia. Petaling Jaya and Penang:...

by Lye Tuck-Po 14 September 2023 Blacksmithing is a source of cash for the Penan. From these craftsmen come a variety of "parangs"...

by Lye Tuck-Po 13 September 2023 I got Sati Uleng, my Penan friend and then-field assistant (2009-2010), to draw some pictures of Penan...

On weaving among the Penan

by Lye Tuck-Po 12 September 2023 "To Penan. . .the landscape is more than simply a vast, complex network of rivers. Above all it is a...

Nanadukan, North Luzon, the Philippines. Photo by Bion Griffin (1981/82); photo retouching, BW conversion, and cropping by me (2009). For...