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Seven fathoms: a Bajau Laut narrative tale from the Semporna District of Sabah
Brunei Museum journal • 3 (3) • Published In 1975 • Pages: 30-40
By: Sather, Clifford.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an interpretive analysis of a popular Sama-Bajau tale, regarding fascination with the hero as evidence of a long-standing political linkage with Malaysian sultans.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Verbal arts
- Texts in the speaker's language
- Texts translated into english
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Sama-Bajau
- 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.
- Anthropologist
- 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 ; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1964-1965, 1974
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1965-1974
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kampong Bangau-Bangau, Semporna, Sabah, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Clifford A. Sather
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 40)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74641745 74641745 74641745 74641745
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bajau (Southeast Asian people)