Overwhelming Terror: Love, Fear, Peace, and Violence among Semai of Malaysia (War and Peace Library) by Robert Knox Dentan

Overwhelming Terror: Love, Fear, Peace, and Violence among Semai of Malaysia (War and Peace Library)



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Overwhelming Terror: Love, Fear, Peace, and Violence among Semai of Malaysia (War and Peace Library) Robert Knox Dentan
Language: English
Page: 292
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0742553299, 9780742557284
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Dentan notes that '[e]thnographies are mountains and endure, theories are mayflies and don’t.' . . . Anyone, irrespective of discipline or area of specialization, who traverses this mountain will gain intellectually. Its methodology is refreshingly experimental and its theoretical orientation eclectic. The arguments presented are persuasive and compelling. The moral lessons conveyed in this elegantly and eloquently expressed ethnography are insightful, pertinent, and significant, particularly for those living in a world in which terror and violence prevail. (Journal Of Asian Studies )

Overwhelming Terror, the product of four decades of research among Semai, demonstrates that Semai ways of life are not something rare and strange, but a continuation of the ways of successful ancient egalitarian societies. Robert Knox Dentan, applying lessons learned among Semai to contemporary American problems, succeeds admirably in a way that makes one proud to be an anthropologist. (Carol Laderman )

Dentan notes that '[e]thnographies are mountains and endure, theories are mayflies and don?t.' . . . Anyone, irrespective of discipline or area of specialization, who traverses this mountain will gain intellectually. Its methodology is refreshingly experimental and its theoretical orientation eclectic. The arguments presented are persuasive and compelling. The moral lessons conveyed in this elegantly and eloquently expressed ethnography are insightful, pertinent, and significant, particularly for those living in a world in which terror and violence prevail... (Journal Of Asian Studies )

About the Author

Robert Knox Dentan is professor emeritus of anthropology at State University of New York at Buffalo.

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