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dc.contributor.authorDentan, Robert K.
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-03T00:27:02Z
dc.date.available2022-08-03T00:27:02Z
dc.date.issued1976
dc.identifier.citationDentan, R. K. (1976). Blood and thunder: Notes on Semai ethnometeorology. Southeast Asia Journal, 9(2), 32-55.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0038-3600
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12852/2184
dc.descriptionJournal articleen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper has two aims. The first is to present, in some detail, information supplementary to that collected by Needham (1967:271- 285) and Evans (1923:146-155, 199-207) on a complex of concepts and rituals surrounding blood, thunder and the “mockery” of animals. Needham’s article is well enough documented to obviate any need to replicate his sources here. The second goal is to offer an analysis of this complex, which is found among widely separated Southeast Asian peoples. Insofar as this analysis is correct, some of Needham’s conclusions seem to require modification. Background Fieldwork. These data were gathered in 1962 in a settlement of Semai and Semai-ized Temiar in Ulu Pahang, West Malaysia. At that time, most of the rituals described here were still practised. An investigation the following year among Semai to the west, in the lowlands of southern Perak, indicated that there this ritual complex was attentuated to the point of disappearance, although Maxwell (1879:48) and Evans (1923:199-207) report it from that general area. The Ford Foundation, the Peabody Museum of Yale University and the American Museum of Natural History supported this research. The Singapore Botanic Gardens and the zoology department of the University of Malaysia helped identify plant and animal specimens. The Ulu Pahang Semai. The economy of these Semai and their Temiar neighbors to the north rests on swidden agriculture, with sup­ plementary hunting, fishing and gathering. As Austroasiatic-speakers, they are related, albeit rather dis­tantly, to the nomadic “Semang,” with whom there seems to have been some cultural contact. Their technology is rather simple.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCentral Philippine Universityen_US
dc.subject.lcshSenoi (Southeast Asian people)en_US
dc.subject.lcshEthnometeorologyen_US
dc.subject.lcshMalaysiaen_US
dc.subject.lcshSquallsen_US
dc.subject.lcshIndigenous peoples--Social life and customsen_US
dc.subject.lcshSenoi (Southeast Asian people)--Rites and ceremoniesen_US
dc.subject.lcshIndigenous peoplesen_US
dc.subject.lcshSenoi (Southeast Asian people)--Social life and customsen_US
dc.subject.lcshFolkloreen_US
dc.subject.lcshThunderstormsen_US
dc.titleBlood and thunder: Notes on Semai ethnometeorologyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dcterms.accessRightsPublicly accessibleen_US
dc.citation.firstpage32en_US
dc.citation.lastpage55en_US
dc.citation.journaltitleSoutheast Asia Journalen_US
dc.citation.volume9en_US
dc.citation.issue2en_US
local.subjectSemaien_US


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