Book
he Semai: a nonviolent people of Malaya.
Holt, Rinehart and Winston • New York • Published In 1968 • Pages: 16, 110
By: Dentan, Robert Knox.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a general survey of the Senoi Semai of the hills and mountains of central Malaysia. The topics covered in the source include environment, demography, subsistence pattern, ethnoscience, nonviolence and enculturation into nonviolence, political authority, kinship and community organization, disease and medicine, life cycle, and religion.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- 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
- 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
- Gerald Reid; 1989
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1962-1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1962-1963
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northwestern Pahang and southern Perak, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert Knox Dentan
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-110)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 68019666
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Senoi (Southeast Asian people)