Overwhelming terror love, fear, peace, and violence among Semai of Malaysia /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
c2008.
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| Series: | War and peace library.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Overwhelming terror |b love, fear, peace, and violence among Semai of Malaysia / |c Robert Knox Dentan. |h [electronic resource] : |
| 260 | # | # | |a Lanham, Md. : |b Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, |c c2008. |
| 300 | # | # | |a 1 online resource (xiii, 277 p.) : |b ill., maps. |
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| 504 | # | # | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-270) and index. |
| 505 | 0 | # | |a Introduction : writing someone else's life -- Spotted doves at war : the Praak Sangkiil -- Regrettable undertakings : a dirty joke, a war, a vacancy -- Responding to terror : intellectually, emotionally, spiritually -- Transforming demons by love and surrender -- Ceremonies of innocence and "positive" peace -- Freedom : just say "no" -- For fear of finding something worse : raising kids -- Juni gone astray -- Inconclusion. |
| 520 | # | # | |a 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. |
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| 650 | # | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE |x Discrimination & Race Relations. |2 bisacsh |
| 650 | # | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE |x Minority Studies. |2 bisacsh |
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