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Semai response to mental aberration
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde • 124 (1) • Published In 1968 • Pages: 135-158
By: Dentan, Robert Knox.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source presents a sociological analysis of the responses to mental aberration exhibited by the Senoi (Semai) of central Malaya. After a brief introductory section dealing with the authors approach to the data, the discussion turns to a study of the specific characteristics of the various diseases described in the text, beliefs about their origins, and methods of treatment. A theoretical analysis of the Senoi data in terms of the conceptual schemes proposed by Wallace, Merton and Lemert regarding their interpretation of mental aberration, concludes this work.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Personality disorders
- Invalidism
- Sickness
- Ethnopsychology
- 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
- article
- 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
- 1961-1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1963
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- central Perak and Pahang, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert Knox Dentan
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sn 86000287
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Senoi (Southeast Asian people)