Welyne Jeffrey Jehom is a senior lecturer at the Anthropology & Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University Malaya since 2009. She is a Bidayuh from Kuching, Sarawak. She obtained her Master degree in Anthropology from Australian National University (1998) and a PhD in Southeast Asian Studies from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Bonn, Germany (2008). She held the headship of Center for Malaysian Indigenous Studies from 2018 to 2021 at Universiti Malaya. Since 2022, she is the coordinator for the International Master of Human Development Universiti Malaya with Asean University Network, also a board member for Asian Human Development Organisation (AHDO) and heading the People Cluster at Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Trained in the anthropology of development, her main research and teaching interests are in the fields of Indigenous knowledge and community development, women and empowerment, and material culture, with a focus on Sarawak. She has published scholarly articles in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Indonesia and the Malay World, American Anthropologist and Asian Journal of Women’s Studies. As part of her educational campaign on importance of Indigenous knowledge especially on the pua kumbu intangible knowledge, she has curated major exhibitions of pua kumbu textiles titled Textile Tales of Pua Kumbu, the Sacred Journey at Universiti Malaya Art Gallery (2015 & 2016), the George Town Festival and the Rainforest Fringe Festival (2017) and international gallery in Paris (2018). She was awarded Merdeka Award Thumbs-Up Challenge in Indigenous Knowledge Conservation – Pua Kumbu under Merdeka Award Trust Malaysia, 2016 (Community Engagement and Research). She established a community enterprise for the Iban pua kumbu textile for the weavers in Kapit, Sarawak, derived from High Impact Research (2013-2016) and continues under various grants. Currently, she is managing research on the Developing Indigenous Entrepreneurship Model based on sharing local indigenous life experiences and economies to create a sustainable livelihood in rural Sarawak. Her book recently in press titled Enriching Iban Pua Kumbu: Tradition and Innovation in an Indigenous Society.

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Welyne Jeffrey Jehom is a senior lecturer at the Anthropology & Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University Malaya since 2009. She is a Bidayuh from Kuching, Sarawak. She obtained her Master degree in Anthropology from Australian National University (1998) and a PhD in Southeast Asian Studies from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Bonn, Germany (2008). She held the headship of Center for Malaysian Indigenous Studies from 2018 to 2021 at Universiti Malaya. Since 2022, she is the coordinator for the International Master of Human Development Universiti Malaya with Asean University Network, also a board member for Asian Human Development Organisation (AHDO) and heading the People Cluster at Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Trained in the anthropology of development, her main research and teaching interests are in the fields of Indigenous knowledge and community development, women and empowerment, and material culture, with a focus on Sarawak. She has published scholarly articles in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Indonesia and the Malay World, American Anthropologist and Asian Journal of Women’s Studies. As part of her educational campaign on importance of Indigenous knowledge especially on the pua kumbu intangible knowledge, she has curated major exhibitions of pua kumbu textiles titled Textile Tales of Pua Kumbu, the Sacred Journey at Universiti Malaya Art Gallery (2015 & 2016), the George Town Festival and the Rainforest Fringe Festival (2017) and international gallery in Paris (2018). She was awarded Merdeka Award Thumbs-Up Challenge in Indigenous Knowledge Conservation – Pua Kumbu under Merdeka Award Trust Malaysia, 2016 (Community Engagement and Research). She established a community enterprise for the Iban pua kumbu textile for the weavers in Kapit, Sarawak, derived from High Impact Research (2013-2016) and continues under various grants. Currently, she is managing research on the Developing Indigenous Entrepreneurship Model based on sharing local indigenous life experiences and economies to create a sustainable livelihood in rural Sarawak. Her book recently in press titled Enriching Iban Pua Kumbu: Tradition and Innovation in an Indigenous Society.

https://rhgareh.com/

Welyne Jeffrey Jehom is a senior lecturer at the Anthropology & Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University Malaya since 2009. She is a Bidayuh from Kuching, Sarawak. She obtained her Master degree in Anthropology from Australian National University (1998) and a PhD in Southeast Asian Studies from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Bonn, Germany (2008). She held the headship of Center for Malaysian Indigenous Studies from 2018 to 2021 at Universiti Malaya. Since 2022, she is the coordinator for the International Master of Human Development Universiti Malaya with Asean University Network, also a board member for Asian Human Development Organisation (AHDO) and heading the People Cluster at Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Trained in the anthropology of development, her main research and teaching interests are in the fields of Indigenous knowledge and community development, women and empowerment, and material culture, with a focus on Sarawak. She has published scholarly articles in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Indonesia and the Malay World, American Anthropologist and Asian Journal of Women’s Studies. As part of her educational campaign on importance of Indigenous knowledge especially on the pua kumbu intangible knowledge, she has curated major exhibitions of pua kumbu textiles titled Textile Tales of Pua Kumbu, the Sacred Journey at Universiti Malaya Art Gallery (2015 & 2016), the George Town Festival and the Rainforest Fringe Festival (2017) and international gallery in Paris (2018). She was awarded Merdeka Award Thumbs-Up Challenge in Indigenous Knowledge Conservation – Pua Kumbu under Merdeka Award Trust Malaysia, 2016 (Community Engagement and Research). She established a community enterprise for the Iban pua kumbu textile for the weavers in Kapit, Sarawak, derived from High Impact Research (2013-2016) and continues under various grants. Currently, she is managing research on the Developing Indigenous Entrepreneurship Model based on sharing local indigenous life experiences and economies to create a sustainable livelihood in rural Sarawak. Her book recently in press titled Enriching Iban Pua Kumbu: Tradition and Innovation in an Indigenous Society.

https://rhgareh.com/