Book
Mad dogs, Englishmen, and the errant anthropologist: fieldwork in Malaysia
Waveland Press • Prospect Heights, Ill. • Published In 1996 • Pages:
By: Raybeck, Douglas.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book describes the life of Malayan villagers in Wakaf Bharu, a community in the Kelantan state of Malaysia, as observed in 1968-1993. Information about Malayan villagers and their culture is organized in the context of the authors own fieldwork adventures and misadventures. Topics covered include kinship, linguistics, gender relations, economics, and political structures. Based on the authors lively field work narratives, the book also provides important insights into the human dimension of undertaking extended ethnographic research which is critical in the reliability of the information collected.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Observation in research
- Informants
- Life history materials
- Cereal agriculture
- Community structure
- Kin relationships
- Social relationships and groups
- Social control
- Gender status
- Gender roles and issues
- Family relationships
- Ethnic stratification
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Political parties
- Elections
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Sociocultural trends
- 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.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1968-1969
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1968-1996
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Wakaf Bharu, Kelantan State, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Douglas Raybeck
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-248)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 97205614
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology--Malaysia--Kelantan
- Ethnology--Fieldwork
- Ethnology--Methodology
- Kelantan--Social life and customs