Book
Some Senoi Semai dietary restrictions: a study of food behavior in a Malay hill tribe
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1988 • Pages:
By: Dentan, Robert Knox.
Abstract
This source is a study of the ritual treatment of food among the Senoi Semai of the Malay Peninsula. The first four chapters of the study discuss in detail the Senoi people and environment and Senoi subsistence strategies, social organization, and socialization. Following a chapter concerning the problems entailed in the study of ritual avoidances of food and the theoretical concepts employed in the study, in four chapters the author examines Semai food avoidances in terms of real or imagined dangers and in connection with ideology and language. Throughout this examination the author is concerned with differences in ritual food avoidances as they relate to highland and lowland groups or “clusters”.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2012
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Gerald Reid; 1989
- Field Date
- 1961-1963
- Coverage Date
- 1947-1963
- Coverage Place
- southern Perak and northwestern Pahang, Malaysia
- Notes
- Robert Knox Dentan
- Often the author's conclusions regarding personality and behavioral processes related to food avoidances are tentative and might logically have been filed in Category 121. This, however, would have entailed extensive use of Category 121; instead, this in
- UM 65-15,028
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 556-575)
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Yale University, 1965
- LCSH
- Senoi (Southeast Asian people)