essay
Keeping the peace in an island world: the Sama Dilaut of Southeast Asia
Keeping the peace: conflict resolution and peaceful societies around the world • (8) • Published In 2004 • Pages: 123-147
By: Sather, Clifford.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This exploration of the social and cultural mechanisms by which a boat-dwelling Sama-Bajau community maintained internal peace and order emphasizes the community’s longstanding experience of resolving disputes and grievances through publicly spoken words instead of physical violence. Maintaining the peace was made possible through a corpus of collectively enforceable norms governing social relations and individual behavior in different domains of life. Community elders played important roles in averting violence by providing means for offenders to flee or find shelter, if only by remaining strictly silent until a reconciliation is reached.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Informal in-group justice
- Social control
- Legal norms
- Avoidance and taboo
- Purification and atonement
- Ethnopsychology
- Status and treatment of the aged
- Kin relationships
- Family relationships
- Nonfulfillment of obligations
- Theory of disease
- Luck and chance
- Social personality
- Ethos
- Sanctions
- 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
- essay
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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, 1979, 1995
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1880-1995
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Semporna district, Sabah, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Clifford Sather
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2003008813
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bajau (Southeast Asian people)