Lahanan Lunettes: Images of a Borneo Long House

This paper frames the fieldwork and life experiences of an anthropologist over the course of twenty-five years in terms of dreams and practicalities. The dreams are vivid accounts of fieldwork relived in a liminal state, following the death of my spouse, but are primarily taken from field notes, diaries and publications. The dreams took on a particularly intense quality in the two years following his death, because of the unexpected nature of the death, my isolation in an unfamiliar environment and the feeling of tasks left unfinished. The practicalities are a commentary on the nature of fieldwork; the problems faced and solutions sought for the difficulties that all anthropologists face in the field.