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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Dentan, Robert Knox, 1936-
Title:
Hocus pocus and extensionism in Central Malaya: notes on
Semai kinship terminology
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
American Anthropologist, vol. 72, no. 2
Published By: Original publisher
American Anthropologist, vol. 72, no. 2
Washington: American Anthropological Association. 1970.
358-362 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Robert Knox Dentan
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2012. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Semai (AN06)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Cultural participation (184);
Kinship terminology (601);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper presents a componential analysis of the
kinship terminology of two groups of Senoi (Semai) studied by the author – termed
eastern and western in this source. According to Dentan the eastern group were far less
acculturated to the predominant Malay society than were the western Semai. A comparison
of the terminology of the two groups, in light of Semai rules regarding proper
terminological usage, seems to indicate several inconsistencies which suggest “…that a
modified componential analysis conforms to the cognitive categories of the Semai if the
extensionist hypothesis that terms have both primary and derived meaning is taken into
account” (p. 358-A)." The exposition of this line of reasoning makes up the major bulk
of this source.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
25
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
an06-025
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Journal Article
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 362)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1962-1963
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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
Ethnologist-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
John Beierle; 1989
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1962-1963
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
central Malay Peninsula
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Senoi (Southeast Asian people)
