To maintain good relations with the superhumans, Batek...

Title: To maintain good relations with the superhumans, Batek...
Description: "To maintain good relations with the superhumans, Batek communicated with them regularly through singing sessions in which shamans might go into trance and send their shadow-souls to visit the superhumans. At the beginning and end of fruit seasons, people built low platforms of tree bark on logs, covered by a huge lean-to-roof of thatch. There they sang to the superhumans, first, to ask for abundant fruit and, later, to thank them for sending it."
Creator: Robert Knox Dentan; Kirk Endicott; Alberto G. Gomes; M. B. Hooker
Source: Robert Knox Dentan, Kirk Endicott, Alberto G. Gomes & M. B. Hooker. (1997). Malaysia and the Original People a case study of the impact of development on Indigenous People. Massachusetts. Allyn and Bacon. p.28.

GN635 M4Mal
Date: 1997
Contributor: amirul
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Robert Knox Dentan et al., “To maintain good relations with the superhumans, Batek...,” Rimbunan: Pangkalan Data Pengajian Melayu, accessed November 9, 2026, https://rimbunan.nusa.my/rimbun/items/show/21726.

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