Survival or Extinction? Animistic Dispute Resolution in the Sultanate of Brunei
By , February 8, 2012
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The animistic dispute resolution mediation practices of the Iban, a small, indigenous, non-Muslim, ethnic minority in Brunei, are being threatened by absorption and integration into Islamization. Under the Sultanate’s current policy of Islamization, animistic dispute resolution processes are threatened by a process of integration and cultural extinction characteristic of post- colonial situations, wherein the dominant indigenous ethnic group consumes the smaller groups.
