Bernard SELLATO

Bernard Sellato, born in 1951, graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie in Nancy, France, in 1973 and was sent immediately to Borneo to work as a field geologist, mapping the then yetuncharted far interior of the island. There he became acquainted withthe Aoheng and other isolated Dayak groups. After a spell of severalyears in Saharan and sub-Saharan West Africa, he returned to Borneoto spend two years with the Aoheng.

After joining CeDRASEMI, he started work in 1982 as a consultantto a petroleum company, resigning in 1985 to take a doctorate from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 1987. He then worked as a consultant anthropologist to several major inter-national foundations and environmental organizations. In 1992, he became a member of CNRS, the French National Science Research Center. He currently heads the Institute for Research on Southeast Asia (IRSEA) in Marseilles, France, and edits the journal Moussons. Social Science Research onSoutheast Asia.

Bernard Sellato is the author of Nomades et sédentarisation à Bornéo (1989), Hornbill and Dragon. Arts and Culture of Borneo (1989 and 1992), Nomads of the Borneo Rainforest (1994), Borneo.People of the Rainforest (a CD-rom ; 1998), Forest, Resources, and People in Bulungan (2001), and a number of articles in journals and books, and editor of several other books.

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