Rungus Dusun : OC13.

Other author/creatorAppell, Laura W. R.
Other author/creatorDoolittle, Amity Appell.
Included WorkAppell, George N. Observational procedures for identifying kindreds.
Included WorkAppell, George N. Residence and ties of kinship in cognatic society.
Included WorkAppell, George N. Dusun languages of northern Borneo.
Included WorkAppell, George N. Nature of social groupings among the Rungus Dusun of Sabah, Malaysia.
Other author/creatorHuman Relations Area Files, inc.
SerieseHRAF world cultures. Asia
EHRAF world cultures. Asia. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Emergent structuralism ; Individuation of the drives of sex and aggression in the linguistic and behavioral repertoire of the Rungus ; Land tenure and development among the Rungus of Sabah, Malaysia ; Observational procedures for identifying kindreds ; Residence and ties of kinship in cognatic society ; The Dusun languages of northern Borneo ; The Rungus Dusun ; The Rungus ; The ecological and social consequences of conversion to Christianity among the Rungus Dusun of Sabah, Malaysia ; The nature of social groupings among the Rungus Dusun of Sabah, Malaysia / G.N. Appell -- Cultural summary, Rungus Dusun / G. N. Appell and Ian Skoggard -- To converse with the Gods / George N. Appell and Laura W.R. Appell -- Menstruation among the Rungus ; Sex role symmetry among the Rungus of Sabah / Laura W.R. Appell -- Latah behavior by females among the Rungus of Sabah / Amity Appell Doolittle.
Abstract The Rungus are a Dusunic speaking people of northern Borneo inhabiting the Kudat Division of Sabah, Malaysia. The estimated 1990 population of the Rungus Dusun is 25,000. Traditional subsistence was based on the cultivation in swiddens by the domestic families of dry rice, maize, cassava, and a variety of vegetables, melons, and pineapples. A domestic family raised pigs, chickens, and occasionally a water buffalo. This file contains 14 documents. All are written by members of the Appell family, who carried out field work there during the years 1959-1960, 1961-1963, 1986, 1987, 1990, and 1992. The major ethnography is G.N. Appell's dissertation (1965). In subsequent articles he writes about Rungus social structure, property system, and ritual practices; Dusun language groups; the domestic developmental cycle and residence; the Rungus cognatic social system; the impact of modernization; Rungus sexual behavior; and the impact of Christianity on Rungus conservation practices. Laura Appell's works address Rungus gender relations, menstruation, and Rungus female spirit mediums. Their daughter's work discusses Malaysian latah behavior.
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Contains title Blood magic. Selections.
Contains title Choice and morality in anthropological perspective. Selections.
Contains title Essays on Borneo societies. Selections.
Contains title Female and male in Borneo. Selections.
Contains title Modernization and the emergence of a landless peasantry. Selections.
Contains title Seen and the unseen. Selections.
Contains title Societies of Borneo. Selections.
Contains title Sociocultural change, development and indigenous peoples. Selections.

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