Overwhelming terror : love, fear, peace, and violence among Semai of Malaysia / Robert Knox Dentan.

Author/creator Dentan, Robert Knox, 1936-
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2008.
Descriptionxiii, 277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesWar and peace library
War and peace library. ^A536365
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 259-270) and index.
LCCN 2008030714
ISBN9780742553293 (cloth : alk. paper)
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