Benedict Sandin
Malaysian ethnologist
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| Intro | Malaysian ethnologist | |
| Places | Malaysia | |
| was | Anthropologist Historian | |
| Work field | Social science | |
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| Birth | 1918 | |
| Death | 1982 (aged 64 years) |
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Benedict Sandin (1918–1982) was an Iban ethnologist, historian, and Curator of the Sarawak Museum in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. He also served as Government Ethnologist to the Government of Sarawak.
He was born in Kerangan Pinggai, a longhouse on the Paku river in the Saribas basin of the Saratok division of Sarawak.