This book analyses the processes of social, cultural and economic change in Brunei Darussalam.

Victor T. King is Professor of Borneo Studies at the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam and Emeritus Professor of South East Asian Studies, University of Leeds, UK. He is the co-author of The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia (Routledge 2006) and co-editor of the Routledge series Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia.

Stephen C. Druce is Programme Leader in Graduate Studies and Research at the Academy of Brunei Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. He is the author of The Lands West of the Lakes: A History of the Ajattappareng Kingdoms of South Sulawesi, 1200 to 1600 CE (2009).

1. Introduction: Donald Brown's Brunei: Society, and Recent Transformations, Victor T. King and Stephen C. Druce 2. Monarchy in Brunei: Past, Present and Future, Ooi Keat Gin 3. 'So near and yet so far': Shaikh A. M. Azahari and 1962, B. A. Hussainmiya 4. Hybrid Pathways to Orthodoxy: Bureaucratisation, Sharia-Compliant Exorcism and the Powers of Japanese Water-Crystal Photography in Brunei Darussalam, Dominik M. Müller 5. Inside or Outside the Mainstream? An Ethnolinguistic Study of the Status of Minority Indigenous Groups in Negara Brunei Darussalam, Noor Azam Haji-Othman and James McLellan 6. Menteri Darat and Incorporation: Integration of Dusun Society into the Organisational Structure of the Brunei Sultanate, Pudarno Binchin 7. The Place of Kadayan in Traditional Brunei Society, Allen R. Maxwell 8. Living on Water: Water Settlements in Borneo, Hans-Dieter Evers 9. Development, Change and Modernisation in Kampong Ayer over the Last Fifty Years, Haji Tassim bin Haji Abu Bakar 10. Prospects and Challenges of Heritage Tourism at Kampong Ayer (Water Village) in Brunei Darussalam, Shafi Noor Islam 11. Epilogue: Brunei Studies: Fifty Years and More, Donald E. Brown