Overwhelming terror love, fear, peace, and violence among Semai of Malaysia /

• Main Author: Dentan, Robert Knox, 1936-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008.
• Series: War and peace library.
• Subjects: Senoi (Southeast Asian people) > Psychology.; Senoi (Southeast Asian people) > Wars.; Senoi (Southeast Asian people) > Social conditions.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Cultural. > Anthropology; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 277 p.) : ill., maps.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-270) and index.
• ISBN: 9780742557284 (electronic bk.); 0742557286 (electronic bk.)

This powerful ethnography of a people believed to be the least violent in the world explores how they maintain peaceful relations even under the most dire circumstances. Robert Knox Dentan, the world's foremost scholar of Semai, brings its members vividlyto life. His book includes translations of their poetry, dramatized accounts of particular events, and extensive quotations from a wide range of individuals. In a clear, gripping, sometimes novelistic style, Dentan introduces the reader to tortured Nakhoda; beautiful, stubborn Kliy; witty, ironic Grcaangsmother; doomed Rmpent; brutal, alienate.