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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dentan, Robert Knox, 1936-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2008]
Series:War and peace library.
Subjects:
Senoi (Southeast Asian people) > Psychology.
Senoi (Southeast Asian people) > Wars.
Senoi (Southeast Asian people) > Social conditions.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.