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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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”.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Behavior processes and personality
- Collecting
- Hunting and trapping
- Food consumption
- Family relationships
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Community heads
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Semai
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- 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
- Gerald Reid; 1989
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1961-1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1947-1963
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southern Perak and northwestern Pahang, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert Knox Dentan
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Yale University, 1965
- UM 65-15,028
- 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
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 556-575)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Senoi (Southeast Asian people)