Senoi
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| 60.000[1] | |||
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The Senoi (also spelled Sengoi and Sng'oi) are a set of Malaysian hunting and gathering Orang Asli peoples.
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[edit] Demography
The Senoi tribes live in the central part of the Malaya Peninsula,[3] and consist of six different groups, the Semai, Temiar, Mah Meri, Jah Hut, Semaq Beri and the Che Wong, all of who speak Senoic languages and have a total population of about 60,000.[4]
[edit] History
Their ancestors are believed to have arrived from southern Thailand about 4,500 years ago.[5]
During the Malayan Emergency, the guerrilla war fought from 1948 to 1960 a small fighting force, the Senoi Praaq was created, which is now part of the General Operations Force of the Royal Malaysia Police.
[edit] Lucid dreaming
Kilton Stewart, who had traveled among the Senoi before the Second World War wrote about the Senoi in his 1948 doctoral thesis[6] and his 1954 popular book "Pygmies and Dream Giants". This work was publicized by Parapsychologist Charles Tart and pedagogue George Leonard in books and at the Esalen Institute retreat center, and in the 1970s Patricia Garfield describes use of dreams among Senoi, based on her contact with some Senoi at the aborigine hospital in Gombak, Malaysia in 1972.[7]
Later researchers were unable to substantiate Stewart's account and in 1985 G. William Domhoff argued[8][9] that the anthropologists who have worked with the Temiar people report that although they are familiar with the concept of lucid dreaming, it is not of great importance to them, but others have argued that Domhoff's criticism is exaggerated .[10][11]
[edit] References
- ^ "POPULATION STATISTICS",
- ^ "POPULATION STATISTICS",
- ^ Map, Keen State College
- ^ "POPULATION STATISTICS",
- ^ "ECONOMIC PATTERNS OF NEOLITHIC LIFE", The Encyclopedia of Malaysia
- ^ "Magico-Religious Beliefs and Practices in Primitive Society - a Sociological Interpretation of their Therapeutic Aspects", LSE
- ^ Creative Dreaming, Patricia Garfield, Ph.D.
- ^ In The Mystique of Dreams: A Search for Utopia Through Senoi Dream Theory
- ^ "Senoi Dream Theory: Myth, Scientific Method, and the Dreamwork Movement", G. William Domhoff, March 2003]
- ^ Revisiting the Senoi Dream Theory:The Bad Logic of Sir G. William Domhoff, Strephon Kaplan-Williams
- ^ Do Senoi practice "Senoi dream theory"?", G. William Domhoff
[edit] Bibliography
- Senoi Dream Theory: Myth, Scientific Method, and the Dreamwork Movement by G. William Domhoff. URL: http://dreamresearch.net/Library/senoi.html
- The Selling of the Senoi by Ann Faraday and John Wren-Lewis. URL: http://www.sawka.com/spiritwatch/selling.htm
- Articles, Books, Notes and Summary of the Senoi and Kilton Stewart and The Marvelous Senoi Dream Controversy, a summary by Richard Wilkerson. URL: http://www.shpm.com/qa/qadream/qadream8.html
- http://www.angelfire.com/ak/electricdreams/senoi.htm
- Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing by Robert Wolff. URL: http://www.amazon.com/Original-Wisdom-Stories-Ancient-Knowing/dp/0892818662/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1
[edit] See also
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