| Collection/Box |
Title |
Description |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 1
Series 1, Folder 1 |
Preliminary Field Notes on the Semai Language, 1963 |
Annotated copy of manuscript by Robert K. Dentan |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 1
Series 1, Folder 2 |
Ethnobotanical Notes, 1991-1992 |
Notes taken in villages along the Teiw Waar and Teiw R'eiis |
Dentan (OA-3)/
Series 1
Digital file |
A Few Notes on Semai Funerary Praxis, 2002 |
Notes in digital form by Robert K. Dentan with notes from the MS of
his unpublished book |
Dentan (OA-3)/
Series 1
Digital file |
Are Demons Evil?, 2002 |
Notes in digital form by Robert K. Dentan |
Dentan (OA-3)/
Series 1
Digital file |
Notes on Pierre Le Roux "Noix de Coco et Tetes Humaines Sacrifices
Symboliques chez les Jawi Malais de la Region dePatani, Thailand du Sud",
2002 |
Notes in digital form by Robert K. Dentan |
Dentan (OA-3)/
Series 1
Digital file |
A Bird-Religion Question, 2003 |
Notes in digital form by Robert K. Dentan |
Dentan (OA-3)/
Series 1
Digital file |
Semai Lullabies, 2003 |
Notes in digital form by Robert K. Dentan |
Dentan (OA-3)/
Series 1
Digital file |
Artocarpus spp. and barkcloth, 2004 |
Notes by Robert K. Dentan and correspondence with Hanne
Christensen. Seven documents in total. |
Dentan (OA-3)/
Series 1
Digital File |
Notes on Semai Houses, various dates |
Unpublished field notes |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 1
Series 2, Folder 1 |
Medical Ideas and Practices Among the Jah Hut of Malaya, Ivan Polunin, c. late 1950's |
Article based on Dentan's work in Malaysia in the late 1950's |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 1
Series 2, Folder 2 |
Materia Medica of the Jah Hut, Robert K. Dentan catalog, American Museum of Natural History, c. 1961-1962 |
This catalog is based on two solo trips to Malaysia by Dentan and a third trip he made to Sungai Kol with Ivan Polunin
|
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 2
Series 2, Folder 3 |
Robert K. Dentan catalog, c. 1963 |
Copy of museum catalog for the Dentan collection held at the Peabody Museum, Yale University, c. 1963 |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 2
Series 2, Folder 4 |
Semai Folk Ornithology: Preliminary Notes by R. Dentan, 1992 |
Manuscript by Robert K. Dentan |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 2
Series 2, Folder 5 |
Much More Than a Tan to Talk About: Tourists, Orang Asli, Malay Nationalism and Commoditized Cultural Diversification An Homage to Thorstein Veblen, R. Dentan and Frederick Rawski, 1992 |
Manuscript by Robert K. Dentan and Frederick Rawski |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 2
Series 2, Folder 6 |
Building a Semai House, n.d. |
Manuscript by Robert K. Dentan |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 2
Series 2, Folder 7 |
Semai Harvest Home, n.d. |
Manuscript by Robert K. Dentan |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 1
Series 2, Folder 8 |
Untitled manuscript (in Malay), Robert K. Dentan, n.d. |
Manuscript on which Fred Rawski based his paper (1998) Kejadian Manusia: An 'Histoire' of Malay Semai Culture Contact. Asian Folklore Studies 57: 189-222 |
Dentan (OA-3)/
Series 2
Digital file |
Praak Sangkiil, 2002 |
Draft of introduction, chapter 1 and bibliography for Robert K.
Dentan's article "Spotted Doves at War : The Praak Sangkiil"
Asian Folklore Studies 63(2) : 397-434 |
Dentan (OA-3)/
Series 2
Digital file |
Preliminary Field Notes on the Semai Language, 2003 |
Edited version of the 1963 manuscript available for viewing as a
digital file |
Dentan (OA-3)/
Series 2
Digital file |
How the Androgynous Bird God Brought Agriculture to Semai
of West Malaysia: Discipline, Hard Work and Subordination to
the Cycle of Time, 2005
|
Copy of a draft of a forthcoming chapter in a French
publication on Southeast Asian birds
|
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 2
Series 3, Folder 1 |
Louis Carrard, 1967-1968 |
Copy of correspondence with Louis Carrard |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 2
Series 3, Folder 2 |
Olga Quaddens, 1981-1990 |
Copy of correspondence with Olga Quaddens |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 2
Series 3, Folder 3 |
Semai Folk Ornithology, 2003 |
E-mail correspondence with Geoffrey Benjamin, Vishvajit Pandya and the
Orang Asli listserve concerning Gallus gallus, the wild fowl |
Dentan (OA-3)/Series 4
Digital files |
The Semai Web-page, 1999 |
Manuscripts and photographs from Robert K. Dentan's
web site and a PowerPoint slide show demonstrating the site's layout |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 2
Series 5, Subseries A, Folder 1 |
Sengoi (Sakai) First Primer, Rev. B.W. F. Napitoepoeloe, 1950 |
Copy of primer published under the auspices of the Lutheran World Federation |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 2
Series 5, Subseries A, Folder 2 |
The Mammalian Taxonomy of the Sen'oi Semai, Robert K. Dentan, 1967 |
Published in Malayan Nature Journal, 20 (3): 100-106 |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 2
Series 5, Subseries A, Folder 3 |
Notes on Semai Ethnomalacology, Robert K. Dentan, 1968 |
Published in Malacologia, 1968, 7(10): 135-141 |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 2
Series 5, Subseries A, Folder 4 |
Semai Response to Mental Aberration, Robert K. Dentan, 1968 |
Published in Bijdragen, Deel 124: 135-158 |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 2
Series 5, Subseries A, Folder 5 |
Identity and Ethnic Contact: Perak Malaysia 1963, Robert K. Dentan, 1976 |
Published in Journal of Asian Affairs,
Spring 1976, Vol. 1, No. 1
|
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 2
Series 5, Subseries A, Folder 6 |
Techniques and Antecedents: A Response to Giesler, 1984 |
Published in the Lucidity Letter 3(2 & 3): 5-7 |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 1
Series 5, Subseries A, Folder 7 |
Stewards of the Green and Beautiful World: A Preliminary Report on Semai Arboriculture and it's Policy Implications, Robert Knox Dentan and Ong Hean Chooi, 1995 |
Copy of chapter from Dimensions of Tradition and Development in Malaysia, 1995 |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 1
Series 5, Subseries A, Folder 8 |
Semai-Malay Ethnobotany: Hindu Influences on the Trade in Sacred Plants, ho hiang, Robert K. Dentan, 1999 |
Two copies of paper published as part of the Akass Heritage Paper Series, 1999 |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 1
Series 5, Subseries A, Folder 9 |
Into the Mainstream or Into the Backwater? Malaysian Assimilation of Orang Asli, Kirk Endicott and Robert K. Dentan, 2004 |
Chapter from Legislating Modernity, C. Duncan ed. Cornell University Press, 2004 |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 1
Series 5, Subseries B, Folder 1 |
The Orang Asli of Malaysia in the Wider National Order: Forging New
and Dynamic Relationships, Tony Williams Hunt and Hasan Mat Nor, 1993 |
Paper given at the International Seminar on Indigenous People, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, November 29-December 1, 1993 |
Dentan (OA-3)/Box 1
Series 5, Subseries C, Folder 1 |
People's Participation in Development (A Case Study of a Successful
Programme of an Orang Asli Settlement), Dato' Jimin Bin Idris |
Report by the Director-General of Orang Asli Affairs, Malaysia, January 18, 1992. Annotated |
Dentan (OA-3)/
Series 6
Digital file |
Photoessay on Tlvvp [Telom] Semai clothes, 1962-1963 |
Essay, photographs and captions in two PDF documents. HRAF #s 291, 292 |
Dentan (OA-3)/
Series 6
Digital files |
A Vision of Modernization, photos and captions, 2002 |
Three digital photographs by Robert K. Dentan |
Dentan (OA-3)/
Series 6
Digital files |
Ricebin and Pig Hunting Wife Ceremony, photos and captions, 2004 |
Two digital photographs and captions by Robert K. Dentan |
Dentan (OA-3)/
Series 6
Digital file |
Portrait of RKD, n.d. |
Digital photograph of Robert K. Dentan |
Dentan (OA-3)/
Series 6
Box 2
Folder 1 |
Semai, Jinteer, 1962 |
9 black and white mounted photographs with captions |
Dentan (OA-3)/
Series 6
Folder 2 |
Semai, 1962-1963 |
16 black and white contact sheets, mostly Semai subject matter |
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