Book
Chewong myths and legends
Printed for the Council of the M.B.R.A.S. by Arts Printing Works Sdn. Bhd. • (11) • Published In 1982 • Pages: xxviii, 137
By: Howell, Signe.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work consists of seventy-one myths collected by the author in the field from September 1977 to June 1979. These tales were further verified and additional information added over a period of three months in the autumn of 1981. Following a very brief introduction to Chewong ethnography, the author turns her attention to a study of the significance of the oral literature to the people, and then prefaces the actual presentation of the mythological texts themselves with a background discussion on cosmology, an important consideration in understanding the tales. The texts of the myths and legends that follow, constituting the major and concluding section of this source are organized by themes into six sections: The mythological origins of the Chewong; hidden identities (i.e., a member of a species of conscious beings pretending to belong to another species); harmful beings; rules (i.e., taboos and prohibitions); legends dealing with the culture hero Bongso; and finally a brief selection of miscellaneous tales.
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Semai
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- John Beierle; 1989
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1977-1981
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Signe Howell
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 83941157
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chewong (Malaysian people)--Folklore
- Legends--Malaysia
- Chewong (Malaysian people)--Religion.