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Examines breastfeeding as a relationship that is part of the process of dali lo, or socialization to the "Mandinka way".

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Explore the variable effects of male and female genital surgeries and propose a scale of damage for male circumcision to complement the WHO's categorization of female genital mutilation.

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Last week at the World social forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, I talked with dozens of people from around the...

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"The people who have lost the most from development in Peninsular Malaysia, however, are Orang Asli, the "original people" or "aborigines." Orang Asli have not only been left behing in the rising prosperity of the nation, their economic condition has…

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"Orang Asli contact with Chinese is largely economic. They sometimes sell products to Chinese middlemen, work in Chinese enterprises like tea estates, and buy things from Chinese shops. The only credit available to most Orang Asli is that which…

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"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,…

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"About 40 percent of Orang Asli today are rural peasants, not deep forest dwellers. That percentage will increase as logging, "development," and forced "regroupment" advance into the interior. These people have economies partially devoted to…

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"Like other southern Orang Asli, Temuan have an ellaborate village political hierarchy, with seven ranked leadership positions: batin, pemangku, jekara, jenang, penghulu balai, menteri, and panglima. The batin ("headman"), a male elder, has the most…

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"In December 1941 the Japanese invaded the Peninsula and occupied it until 1945. During that period most Orang Asli retreated into the forest and avoided contact with the outside world. They shared the forest with the Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese…

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"The Federal Constitution (Malaysian Government 1982) recognizes Orang Asli as citizens, who, in theory, are guaranteed the same rights as all other citizens. These rights include equal treatment before the law, equal access to public education,…

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"In the late 1970s, however, the government began a program for converting all Orang Asli to Islam (JHEOA 1983; Mohd Tap 1990:228; see Chapter 5). This reflected a shift in the government's goal from integration to asimilation, which would result in…

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"The harshest activity with the harshest impact on Orang Asli is logging, a prerequisite to most development projects. Although Malaysia is well known for its export of manufactures, palm oil, rubber, and tin, the two exports which made in the most…

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"For Orang Asli, the benefits of developing golf courses and resorts are indirect at best. It takes two or three hundred workers to build a golf course. but only about forty to run it, fewer if it is mechanized. A few Semai with the equivalent of a…

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"Contrary to the claims of some government officials, Orang Asli are not against development. The Semai who held logs hostage in Pahang wanted development (a road, piped water, electricity), not money. The Temuan in Negeri Sembilan who applied for a…

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"The JHEOA goal in regroupment schemes is to foster cash-crop arboriculture. The favored crop is rubber, though the price of rubber is generally low and subject to wild variations depending on world market demand. probably the Department continues to…

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"On the whole the government's economic programs both inside and outside of regroupment schemes have failed to benefit Orang Asli. Most Orang Asli are actually worse off now than they were before the government began its efforts to "develop" their…

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"The Department's goal of converting Orang Asli to Islam also requires keeping them from adopting other religions. The JHEOA skirts the Constitutional guarantee of religious freedom by using powers set out in the Aboriginal Peoples Act to exclude…

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"The main thrust of these recommendations is that Orang Asli want development and integration into mainstream society, but with their ethnic identities intact. In many ways the recommendations recall the Statement of Policy of 1961, which was…

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Reports on middle-aged daughters' perceptions of the experience of parental death.

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A. Beginnings
About the middle of the thirteenth century the great Arab scholar, Ibn Sa'id, compiled his Bast al-And or Geography, in which he collected many ancient texts...

Interviews conducted in Guadalajara, Jalisco (Mexico) and the Edinburg-McAllen area of south Texas (United States) elicited explanatory models of AIDS.

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The importation of the high-risk label causes articulation at the local level.

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Membincangkan kepentingan buku daftar penginapan di rumah rehat (rest house) sebagai sumber sejarah yang kurang digunakan. Artikel ini menerangkan bagaimana rekod ini boleh memberikan maklumat berharga tentang pelancong, pentadbiran kolonial, dan…

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Here is an extract from the Inaugural Lecture, entitled 'People's History', given on 17 April 1973 at the University of Papua New Guinea by Professor D.JN, Denoon...

The article by Rodney Needham explores the use of death-names among the Penan people of middle Borneo, which are names assumed upon the death of close relatives and are based on the birth order of children, discussing the possibility of a similar…

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The Chewong, also known as Siwong, are a small indigenous group in Peninsular Malaysia with unique beliefs, especially about nature and the spirit world. Their way of life is deeply tied to the forest, with customs that emphasize harmony, sharing,…

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Perihal Kanto Gandano dan pencarian pemimpin baru

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" Ciri yang menonjol sekali dalam teks ini ialah banyaknya ubat atau penawar bagi satu-satu penyakit,..."

" Mimpi sebenarnya terdapat dalam mana-mana masyarakat."

" Masyarakat Melayu kini tidak begitu mengambil berat lagi tentang petua."

" Teks ini mengandungi ilmu ramalan tentang nasib dan akibat yang ditimbulkan berdasarkan perilaku bidatang yang masuk ke rumah atau masuk ke kebun."

" Walau bagaimanapun, perhubungan dan peranan sosial sebagai suami dan isteri tidak diperoleh secara spontan da kebetulan,..."

" Keris ialah " Pusaka" unik yang dimiliki oleh masyarakat di Dunia Melayu."

" Epistemolohi, pada dasarnya bermakna "ilmu" atau "pengetahuan"..."

"Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It is a recognized academic subject - a discipline which can be studied at universities, an area still with immense research potential, an enthusiasm of many thousands of devotees throughout the…

"Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It is a recognized academic subject - a discipline which can be studied at universities, an area still with immense research potential, an enthusiasm of many thousands of devotees throughout the…

Abstrak

Bab 1 merupakan pengenalan awal yang meliputi konsep dan sejarah perkembangan wacana. Bahagian ini juga menyentuh tentang latar belakang beberapa Mahkamah Syariah di Negeri Sembilan, tujuan dan masalah kajian. Teori yang dipraktikkan dalam…

Abstrak

Disertasi ini ditulis dalam enam bab. Bab pertama memberi pengenalan secara ringkas tentang tujuan kajian, bidang kajian, latar belakang kawasan kajian dan metodologi kajian. Dalam bab ini juga dimasukkan kajian-kajian yang telah dilakukan…
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