Endicott, K;
Tuck-Po, L;
Zahari, NF;
Rudge, A;
(2016)
Batek playing Batek for tourists at Peninsular Malaysia’s national park.
Hunter Gatherer Research
, 2
(1)
pp. 97-121.
10.3828/hgr.2016.5.
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Abstract
The Batek are a foraging-trading people living in and around Peninsular malaysia’s largest national park, taman Negara. In recent years some of their semi-permanent camps near the park headquarters at Kuala tahan have become tourist attractions. Batek residents allow groups of malaysian and foreign tourists to visit, and they demonstrate some of their specialised skills, including shooting blowpipes and making fire with rattan vines and dry wood, as well as selling handicrafts. In this article we examine the reasons why some Batek participate in the tourist business, how they integrate it into their overall economy, and how they preserve their distinctive cultural values and practices while offering a simplified picture of their culture to curious outsiders.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Batek playing Batek for tourists at Peninsular Malaysia’s national park |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3828/hgr.2016.5 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.3828/hgr.2016.5 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Batek, Peninsular malaysia, economy, tourism, cultural resilience |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10064676 |
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