Benedict Sandin was a Malaysian ethnologist and historian. He was Curator of the Sarawak Museum from December 1966 to March 1974. Sandin collected and documented the oral histories and oral genealogies of the Iban peoples in the 1930s.
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Benedict Sandin was a Malaysian ethnologist and historian. He was Curator of the Sarawak Museum from December 1966 to March 1974. He also served as Government Ethnologist to the Government of Sarawaks. Sandin collected and documented the oral histories and oral genealogies of the Iban peoples in the 1930s, 20 years before Derek Freeman’s influential studies of Iban social organisations.
He died of lung cancer in August, 1982. On 18 October 2020, Benedict Sandin’s 102nd birthday was featured on Google Doodle to commemorate his contributions in preserving Iban culture.
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