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A Vision of Modernization: An Article on a Drawing by Bah Rmpent, a Child of the Sengoi Semai, a Traditionally Nonviolent Indigenous People of the Malaysian Peninsula
Author(s) -
Dentan Robert K.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1525/ahu.2001.26.1.3
Subject(s) - indigenous , modernization theory , newspaper , interpretation (philosophy) , history , peninsula , poetry , genocide , sketch , geography , media studies , sociology , political science , archaeology , law , literature , art , philosophy , linguistics , algorithm , computer science , ecology , biology
The core of this article is a pastiche, consisting of a sketch of the life of Bah Rmpent, a nine‐year‐old Sengoi Semai boy, in 1992; a stone‐cold poem about the finality of genocide, by Robert Frost; and a newspaper account of building a dam on the last Whitewater river of peninsular Malaysia. The whole is sandwiched between an introductory interpretation and explanatory endnotes.