Kinabalu: Sacred Mountain, Tourism, and Struggle

Widiyanto, Nur (2024) Kinabalu: Sacred Mountain, Tourism, and Struggle. Mata Kata Inspirasi Publisher, Yogyakarta. ISBN 978-623-8735-37-2

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Abstract

This book focuses on the struggle of a Dusun group in Bundu Tuhan, Sabah, Malaysia to strengthen their cultural identity and access to the customary land; Mount Kinabalu. This group is a part of the hilly people having cultural distinctiveness from the dominant groups living in the lowlands and urban areas. The main focus is revealing the dynamics between the legacy of indigenous belief namely Momolianism, state park policies and tourism development in Mount Kinabalu within people's daily lives. Though the mainstream discourse tends to locate tourism as a destructive power, however, this book views that engaging tourism is also a part of daily tactics to respond to external forces through employing heterotopic tourism.

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