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Semai nonviolenceBook 1988 • Robarchek, Clayton Allen
Semai • Asia > Southeast Asia
This study represents an empirical investigation directed toward the solution of a specific ethnographic problem relevant to the question of why, in a world filled with violence, do the Semai Senoi shun violence toward their fellow human beings. Roba...Blood drunkenness and the bloodthirsty Semaiarticle 1987 • Robarchek, Clayton Allen
Semai • Asia > Southeast Asia
In this source the authors deal with the assertion, found often in the literature on human aggression, that the Semai, despite their peaceful outward appearance, are innately violent. The authors are especially concerned with this problem because the...Frustration, aggression and the non-violent Semaiarticle 1977 • Robarchek, Clayton Allen
Semai • Asia > Southeast Asia
This source examines the frustration-aggression hypothesis formulated by Dollard and his co-workers in the light of a body of ethnographic data on the Senoi including various theories about and research on the nature of emotion. The result of this an...Learning to feararticle 1979 • Robarchek, Clayton Allen
Semai • Asia > Southeast Asia
This source examines the development and maintenance of emotional specialization by “analyzing the social, cultural, psychological, and physiological processes whose interactions give rise in each generation to an ethos of fearfulness among the Semai...Conflict, emotion and abreactionarticle 1979 • Robarchek, Clayton Allen
Semai • Asia > Southeast Asia
Conflict and dispute management among the Semai is accomplished by the BCARAA, a council of village elders led by a headman. The principals involved in a dispute each gather their ego-centered kindred (WARIS) for support. Robarchek describes the proc...