Ma' Betisek Concepts of Living Things
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A01=Wazir-Jahan Karim
aboriginal Malaysian cultural practices
Ancestral Laws
Animal Myths
Animal World
animism studies
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Banana Stems
Batu Pahat
Carey Island communities
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Curative Spells
Durio
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ethnobotany
indigenous belief systems
Kinsmen
Ma' Betisek
Malayan Aborigines
mangrove coastal area
Mangrove Creeks
Masked Dancers
Mystical Attacks
Mythically Depicted
Mythological Level
Nipah Palm
Omen Birds
Physical Abodes
Ritual Offerings
Ritual Prohibitions
Sea Water
shamanistic cures
shamanistic healing
Shamanistic Seances
Sixth World
Southeast Asian anthropology
Thunderstorms
traditional ecological knowledge
urban influences
White Handed Gibbon
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780485195545
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1981
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Ma' Betisek are a group of aborigines who live on the mangrove coastal area of Selangor in peninsular Malaysia. Dr Karim's study is mainly focused on the Ma' Betisek communities on Carey Island, off the west coast of Selangor and in particular threevillages - Sungei Sialang, Sungei Mata and Sungei Bumbun. Few changes have taken place in the lives of the Betisek people on the island since 1975. On the mainland, the Ma' Betisek are busy keeping pace with development and modem life. However,despite increasing deforestation and new urban influences on the island, the Carey Island communities continue to preservetheir naturistic ideas of how humans should live with plants and animals. Dr Karim's research focuses on this issue.
Dr Karim is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Penang, Malaysia.
