Book
Malay industries: rice planting
Printed by J. E. Wallace at the F. M. S. Govt. Press • (3) • Published In 1926 • Pages: iii, 40
By: Shaw, G. E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper stresses the importance in Malay life of rice growing with all its prescribed rules and ceremonial. The role of the 'pawang' [shaman] at each stage of rice growing is discussed. The various tools and their uses are described. The rice growers' cooperation on a community level in planting, irrigating and harvesting is described. The appendix includes in Malay a list of technical terms used in rice planting and detailed descriptions of the methods used.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cereal agriculture
- Agricultural science
- Land use
- Organized ceremonial
- Community heads
- Magic
- Labor and leisure
- Internal trade
- Ordering of time
- Annual cycle
- Cereal industry
- Ethnobotany
- Rest days and holidays
- Mythology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Malays
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- B. P. Emerson ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1926
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] G. E. Shaw
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Malays (Asian people)