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...Alberto Gomes Overwhelming Terror: Love, Fear, Peace, and Violence among Semai of Malaysia . By Robert Knox Dentan . Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield , 2008 . 1 pp. $31.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 We are regularly reminded...

... Gomes has previously published several articles and book chapters on issues of ethnicity, identity, and modernization of the indigenous minorities of Malaysia, speci cally the Semai and the Semang. Now he has published, with minor changes, his previously unpublished Ph.D. dissertation on the economic...

... J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S and manipulate economic relations. Although the Semai, trading for hundreds of years with Malays and Chinese, had often been portrayed as living in a kind of timeless, primitive present, Gomes could demonstrate that by the early 1980s they were easily able...

... (Temiar and Semai), actively participated in violence during the Emergency, the Communist insurrection following the Second World War. Leary, who served in the government forces during the Emergency, claims that "the proposition that [the Senoi] were a gentle, unaggressive people was based on the findings...

..., the aborigines of Peninsular Malaysia, is that they are gentle people who abhor all violence. In this book historian John Leary argues, on the contrary, that some Orang Asli, especially Senoi (Temiar and Semai), actively participated in violence during the Emergency, the Communist insurrection following...

..., identity, and modernization of the indigenous minorities of Malaysia, speci cally the Semai and the Semang. Now he has published, with minor changes, his previously unpublished Ph.D. dissertation on the economic activities of the Tapah Semai of the Batang Padang District of Perak state. Gomes s research...

... and hears through the filter of his understanding of Semai culture and of the problems encountered by Semai individuals attempting to pass for Malay. Dentan's struggle to piece together disparate fragments of information into a coherent narrative highlights the crucial role of the ethnographer writing...

..., Bah Pelankin and Chawog, became notorious guerrillas; Bah Pelankin allegedly ordered the massacre of thirty-five fellow Semai. Both guerrillas were eventually killed by Orang Asli Home Guards armed by the British. Leary makes much of the fact that the governmentorganized field force of mostly Orang...

... clarifies many aspects of Aslian religion that have hitherto seemed arbitrary or random, including elements in the religions of Aslian horticulturalists (such as the Semai and Temiar) with whom Kirk Endicott deals only in passing. Criticizing such a significant achievement seems almost captious; the points...

... by Gower Publishing) Malaysia is probably best known in the world of anthropology for studies of Iban, Penan, Semai, and other non-Muslim aborigines and for studies of Malay peasants in Negeri Sembilan and Kelantan. In the past decade, anthropologists and others have broadened and enriched our knowledge...

... on Batak-Agta subsistence, Alberto Gomes on the Semai) to rice cultivators (Robert Winzeler on Malay/Thai/Chinese interactions in Kelantan, Renato Rosaldo on the Ilongot, Aram \engoyan on the Mandaya and their relations with lowland Bisayan and upland Mangguangan) and commercial populations (Pei Sheng-ji...

... phenotype plus rough phonological and semantic equivalence (p. 195), for example, is quite unsatisfactory. By itself such farfetched speculation is harmless, even interesting. But in conjunction with Endicott's failure to note that east Semai and Temiar Aslian neighbors of the "Negritos" use a ritual...

..., and Yi of China; the Amis of Taiwan; the Batak of the Philippines; the Batak, Rungus Dusun, and Semai of Malaysia; the Bulusu' and Kubu of Indonesia; the Karen of Burma and Thailand; and the Okinawans of the Ryukyu Islands. Each ethnographic chapter follows a general outline which includes a "cultural...

...-Hutheesing evaluates the situation of four peripheral Southeast Asian groups: the Semai of Peninsular Malaysia, the land Dayak of Sarawak, the Negrito of the Philippines, and the Lisu of northern Thailand. She argues that though a stronger differentiation of economic sex roles has developed and that this has...

... chapters range from considerations of hunter-gatherers (Terry Rambo on the Semang, James Eder on relations between the Agta and Palanan, Rowe Cadelina on Batak-Agta subsistence, Alberto Gomes on the Semai) to rice cultivators (Robert Winzeler on Malay/Thai/Chinese interactions in Kelantan, Renato Rosaldo...

..., 1995. 37 pp. $7.00 (paper). MURRAY, Stephen O. Angkor Life. San Francisco: Bua Luang Books, 1996. ill, pp. $8.95. NGUYEN, Mai. God's Will. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Hidden Creek, 1993- 374 pp. $18.00 (paper). NICHOLAS, Colin. Pathways to Dependence; Commodity Relations and the Dissolution of Semai Society...

... Series to deal with Southeast Asia, and the studies deal mainly with small, remote or minority groups. (Others concern the Semai and Dusun of Malaysia, Kalinga and Tausug of The Philippines, and Malays of South Thailand.) The series is "designed to bring to students, in beginning and intermediate courses...

... or minority groups. (Others concern the Semai and Dusun of Malaysia, Kalinga and Tausug of The Philippines, and Malays of South Thailand.) The series is "designed to bring to students, in beginning and intermediate courses in the social sciences, insights into the richness and complexity of human life...

... by volume editor Leslie E. Sponsel, are accompanied by fourteen papers on endangered indigenous peoples. These peoples include the Ainu and Ayukawa-hama ofJapan; the Akha, Uyghur, and Yi of China; the Amis of Taiwan; the Batak of the Philippines; the Batak, Rungus Dusun, and Semai of Malaysia; the Bulusu...

... Malaysia, including a hunting and gathering people (Batek) and several farming groups (Semai, Temiar, and Chewong) who dwell in the interior foothills and mountains of the peninsula. The next three chapters (by Mariam Ali, Lioba Lenhart, and Cynthia Chou 546 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S...