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Batek Negrito religion: the world-view and rituals of a hunting and gathering people of Peninsular Malaysia
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press • Oxford • Published In 1979 • Pages:
By: Endicott, Kirk Michael.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph describes and analysizes the religious beliefs of the Semang, a group of nomadic hunting-gethering people who live in the forests of Malaysia. Basing himself on extensive ethnographic fieldwork among a small subgroup of Semang called Batek Negritos, the author shows that religion gives meaning and values to their lives and reassures them that the way they live is right for them and is in harmony with the forces of nature.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Location
- Population
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Vocabulary
- Linguistic identification
- Collecting
- Hunting and trapping
- Diet
- Settlement patterns
- General character of religion
- Cosmology
- Mythology
- Animism
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Magic
- Ethnometeorology
- Ethnobotany
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Semang
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem ;2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1971-1972,1973,1975,1976
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1979
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Kirk Endicott
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-225) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79040385
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Batek (Malaysian people)--Religion/Semang (Malaysian people)