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.
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.
Books by this author
Beyond the Green Myth
Borneo’s Hunter-Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century
This book is the first ever to offer a comprehensive picture of the nomadic and formerly nomadic hunting-gathering groups of the Borneo tropical rain forest. It presents a wealth of new research and covers all those parts of the island where nomads are or were known to exist (Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan).