book chapter
The nature of social groupings among the Rungus Dusun of Sabah, Malaysia
[s.n.] • [s.l.] • Published In 1965 • Pages:
By: Appell, George N..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a ethnography of a fairly remote Rungus Dusun village in the Kudat Penninsula of northern Sabah state, Malaysia. The Rungus live in villages of one to three longhouses. Although villages and longhouses are social and political units, Appell argues that the domestic family is the main ritual, jural, and corporate unit in Rungus society. He demonstrates this claim by examining the Rungus marriage and residence patterns, and property system. A detailed analysis of Dusun spirits, taboos, delicts, and suits also demarcate households as distinct units. He discusses the impact the change to individual ownership of land will have on Dusun society. The appendix includes a four-page glossary.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Property
- Family
- Community
- Offenses and sanctions
- Spirits and gods
- Religious practices
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rungus Dusun
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- 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 chapter
- 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.
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1959-1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1959-1963
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kudat District, Sabah, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- G. N. Appell
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- The Australian National University, 1965
- Maps not included: 1.1 and 1.2
- Includes bibliographical references (Bibliography i-xvii)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Dusun (Bornean people)