Lye Tuck-Po

Anthropologist. Photographer. Environmental consultant. And many other things.

Kayan men, Sarawak, 2009

Three men laughing

Malaysian children playing heritage games, 2012

A group of children holding out their hands to pick teams

Logs at roadside, Sarawak, 2009

Newly cut logs

Clouds over the Tonle Sap, 2005

Fishing hut

Stueng Saen, Cambodia, 2005

Boy pulling net

Sarawak, 2010

Penan man putting down firewood

Batek moving camp, 2014

Batek woman and children picking their way through fallen tree, while moving camp

Batek woman resting in her lean-to, 2012

Batek woman

All photos @ Lye Tuck-Po, 2023

Blog

Welcome! Here you'll find the complete text of the comprehensive and annotated Orang Asli bibliography (2001), which I edited and has been out of print for some years now. I haven't updated the book, but will be happy to feature updates on this blog from readers. I'll also blog about anything that occurs to me, but not very often.

May 1

Batek

Audio: gibbons

by Lye Tuck-Po I posted the following links for a (virtual) presentation at Wofford College. 1. Lar gibbon: Mother and child...

May 1

Video: mimicking

by Lye Tuck-Po I gave a virtual talk last night on "Exploring distances between gibbons and Batek hunter-gatherers in Malaysia." This is...

Jan 23

Batek

Sons of Tanyoŋ

by Lye Tuck-Po 23/1/24 I guess I've been following in the footsteps of Kirk and Karen Endicott, ever since 1993 when I found myself...

Jan 11

Batek

Ode to palms (2): harvesting "taduʔ"

by Lye Tuck-Po 10/1/24 Batek taduʔ is the mountain nibung palm, Oncosperma horridum or, in Malay, bayas. There are a lot growing by the...

Jan 7

Batek

An ode to palms

by Lye Tuck-Po 7/1/24 Outside Taman Negara national park, Pahang, Malaysia, August 14, 1999: Cangkay is opening up the trunk of a...

Dec 18, 2023

Batek

Conversations: two-handers

by Lye Tuck-Po 18/12/2023

About me...

Lye Tuck Po is an anthropologist at the School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, where she teaches courses on environmental anthropology, Southeast Asian cultures, and ethnography. Her main ethnographic work is with the Batek of Pahang, which now spans 30 years. She has also worked with the Penan of Sarawak, Kuay and Khmer peoples in Cambodia, and various groups in Sabah.

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Latest Work

Lye Tuck-Po. 2022. Images of Self and Other in an Ethnohistory of the Batek of Pahang, Malaysia

Lye Tuck Po. 2023. Mentor, friend, companion, and so much else. In: Scholar activist Khoo Khay Jin: reflections on Sarawak Malaysia and globalization

Dendangan Hep, Lye Tuck-Po and ʔeyCaŋkãy. 2023. Why can't we take more / Mengapa kita tak boleh berlebihan?