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DR. WELYNE JEFFREY JEHOM

Department of Anthropology and Sociology

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

welynejj@um.edu.my
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I am an anthropologist by training and I am involved in research on community development and engagement. All of my work with the communities have been supporting and creating a structure for them to participate in circular economy by empowering them with skills and knowledge that are relevant for them to establish community-based enterprise or to enhance their knowledge on being an Indigenous entrepreneurs at the rural regions. For this purpose, I adopt participatory community-based action research and ethnographic study, particularly when I conduct social impact assessment before conducting the research and after the implementations of the projects.

My primary research focusing on community-driven development project that includes the applications of Indigenous knowledge
as tools for the community livelihood development in the circular economy on community-based cultural and knowledge conservation by engaging the makers, artisans and women to actively participate in the projects. The most successful research and sustainable community engagement has been the development of the Indigenous knowledge of the traditional textile, the Iban pua kumbu that has led to a series of educational polysensory exhibition, the “Textile Tales of the Pua Kumbu since 2015. I am also an art curator, curating cultural exhibitions and based on the HIR (2013-2016), I created a community-based enterprise that promotes the traditional Iban Pua Kumbu internationally.


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Memories Of Textile Narratives: Iban Weavers Restoring And Conserving Pua Kumbu Knowledge In Sarawak
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Longhouse And Communal Living Promoting Healthy Ageing In Bario, Sarawak
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2022

Dilemmas of an Indigenous activist anthropologist: Iban textiles and community development

2022

Bullying amongst Orang Asli children: A qualitative study in an Orang Asli primary school in Klang Valley, Malaysia

2022

Dilemmas of an Indigenous activist anthropologist: Iban textiles and community development

2020

The alien communal patron deity A comparative study of the Datuk Gong worship among Chinese communities in Malaysia

2021

Ethical issues, challenges and solutions during fieldwork with homeless elderly people of Malaysia and Pakistan

2020

Iban pua kumbu: A canvas of Animistic Documentation, and Social and Cultural Identity

2017

Kenyah-Badeng Displacement: Bakun Hydroelectric Project Resettlement

2014

Governance on compensation: Bakun Dam in Sarawak, Malaysia

2014

Photography documentation of cultural heritage; Pua Kumbu textile of Sarawak, Borneo

2000

Critical review on inter-group relations: Pre-Brooke to Brooke rule