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Aya Kawai - Batek Navigation in the Forest 006
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Aya Kawai, assistant professor at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, joins us to talk about the navigational system of the Batek of the Malaysian interior, who travel though jungles, mountains and river systems reliably without maps. We discuss the river centric nature of their wayfinding and also veer off on tangents of blowpipes, shelter making, durian, and Okinawan-Austronesian connections.
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