| Included Work | Dentan, Robert Knox, 1936- Senoi. |
| Included Work | Dentan, Robert Knox, 1936- Some Senoi Semai dietary restrictions. |
| Included Work | Dentan, Robert Knox, 1936- If there were no Malays, who would the Semai be? |
| Included Work | Dentan, Robert Knox, 1936- Notes on childhood in nonviolent context, the Semai case. |
| Included Work | Dentan, Robert Knox, 1936- Semai, a nonviolent people of Malaya. |
| Included Work | Dentan, Robert Knox, 1936- Identity and ethnic conflict, Perak Malaysia 1963. |
| Included Work | Dentan, Robert Knox, 1936- Semai response to mental aberration. |
| Included Work | Dentan, Robert Knox, 1936- Hocus pocus and extensionism in Central Malaya. |
| Included Work | Dentan, Robert Knox, 1936- Overwhelming terror. |
| Included Work | Dentan, Robert Knox, 1936- Ambivalences in child training by the Semai of peninsular Malaysia and other peoples. |
| Included Work | Dentan, Robert Knox, 1936- Potential food sources for foragers in Malaysian rainforest. |
| Included Work | Dentan, Robert Knox, 1936- Culture summary, Semai. |
| Included Work | Domhoff, G. William Senoi and their dream theory. |
| Included Work | Fix, Alan G. Semai Senoi population structure and genetic microdifferentation. |
| Included Work | Gomes, Alberto G., 1954- Looking for money. |
| Included Work | Robarchek, Clayton Allen, 1939- Semai nonviolence. |
| Included Work | Robarchek, Clayton Allen, 1939- Blood drunkenness and the bloodthirsty Semai. |
| Included Work | Robarchek, Clayton Allen, 1939- Frustration, aggression and the non-violent Semai. |
| Included Work | Robarchek, Clayton Allen, 1939- Learning to fear. |
| Included Work | Robarchek, Clayton Allen, 1939- Conflict, emotion and abreaction. |
| Other author/creator | Human Relations Area Files, inc. |
| Series | eHRAF World Cultures. Asia
eHRAF World Cultures. Asia. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents |
Senoi ; Some Senoi Semai dietary restrictions : a study of food behavior in a Malay hill tribe ; If there were no Malays, who would the Semai be? ; Notes on childhood in nonviolent context: the Semai case ; The Semai : a nonviolent people of Malaya ; Identity and ethnic conflict: Perak Malaysia 1963 ; Semai response to mental aberration ; Hocus pocus and extensionism in Central Malaya : notes on Semai kinship terminology ; Overwhelming terror : love, fear, peace, and violence among Semai of Malaysia ; Potential food sources for foragers in Malaysian rainforest : sago, yams and lots of little things ; Culture summary, Semai / Robert Knox Dentan -- Ambivalences in child training by the Semai of peninsular Malaysia and other peoples / Robert K. Dentan -- The Senoi and their dream theory / G. William Domhoff -- Semai Senoi population structure and genetic microdifferentation / Alan Gordon Fix -- Looking for money: capitalism and modernity in an Orang Asli village / Alberto G. Gomes -- Blood drunkenness and the bloodthirsty Semai : unmaking another anthropological myth ; Frustration, aggression and the non-violent Semai ; Learning to fear : a case study of emotional conditioning ; Conflict, emotion and abreaction : resolution of conflict among the Semai Senoi / Clayton A. Robarchek -- Semai nonviolence: a systems approach to understanding / Clayton Allen Robarchek. |
| Scope and content |
This collection consists of 20 documents, all in English. The main ethnographers of the Semai are Dentan, who did his fieldwork in 1962-1963, and Robarchek, who did his fieldwork ten years later. Dentan's published dissertation (1976) provides the basic community study and ethnography of the Semai. He has also written briefer cultural summaries (1964; 1968), including one on Semai identity (1975). The apparent passivity of the Semai attracted numerous psychological studies by Robarchek (1977; 1978; 1979a; 1987), as well as, an article by him on dispute management (1979b). Dentan's contribution to the subject looks at child-rearing practices (Dentan 1978; 2001). Other studies focus on diet (Dentan 1965; 1991), medicine (Dentan 1968), kinship (Dentan 1970), and dreams (Domhoff 1985). Fix (1972) did a genetic study of the Semai to define the local breeding group. Gomes (2004) wrote on the household economy. Dentan (2008) pushes the ethnographic envelope in a passionate account of the historical shaping of Semai psychology. |
| General note | This portion of eHRAF world cultures was last updated in 2013 and is a revision and update of the microfiche file, Senoi. |
| General note | Title from Web page (viewed Oct. 9, 2013). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
