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Author Benjamin, Geoffrey, author

Title Temiar religion, 1964-2012 : enchantment, disenchantment, and re-enchantment in Malaysia's uplands / Geoffrey Benjamin
Published Singapore : NUS Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 450 pages)
Contents Half title page; Frontispiece; Full title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Tables and List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; Orthography and Pronunciation; Chapter 1: The Historical and Intellectual Background; Chapter 2: The Temiars and their Religion; Chapter 3: Temiar Religion (1967) -- Preface and Introduction; Chapter 4: Temiar Religion (1967) -- The Cosmos; Chapter 5: Temiar Religion (1967) -- Species; Chapter 6: Temiar Religion (1967) -- Souls; Chapter 7: Temiar Religion (1967) -- Spirit-mediumship; Chapter 8: Temiar Religion (1967) -- Theology
Chapter 9: Field-report Correspondence with Edmund LeachChapter 10: Temiar Mediumship in Context; Chapter 11: Indigenous Religious Systems of the Malay Peninsula; Chapter 12: Danger and Dialectic in Temiar Childhood; Chapter 13: Rationalisation and Re-enchantment: Temiar Religion, 1964-94; Chapter 14: Temiar Religions, 1994-2012: Islam, Christianity, ʔalʉj Səlamad; Afterword; Appendix 1: Four accounts of H.D. Noone's work on Temiar Religion; Appendix 2: Dance types and spirit-guide song genres; Appendix 3: Further accounts of burial practices; Appendix 4: Children's accounts of their dreams
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-437) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Conversion.
Ethnology -- Malaysia.
Senoi (Southeast Asian people) -- Malaysia -- Religion
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Conversion
Ethnology
Malaysia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789971698270
9971698277
9971697068
9789971697068