Semang
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Semangs,
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Semang
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The Semang Negritos persisted as hunter-gatherers trading with neighboring farmers but adopted an Austroasiatic language from those farmers—much as, we shall see, Philippine Negrito and African Pygmy hunter-gatherers adopted languages from their farmer trading partners.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Though much has been written about the Pygmies, Messrs. Skeat and Blagden's account of the Semang people is by far the most thorough and important.
From Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme
She felt that she no longer had cause to be troubled; that whatever she and Semang might need would come without effort on their part.
From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Carl Lumholtz
Semang heard him, but was afraid to move, and slept no more.
From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Carl Lumholtz
It enables us to go back to Semang totemism as an example of primitive kinless society, and forward to Arunta totemism as an example of early development therefrom.
From Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme
Farther south are the Semangs of Kedah, with an average stature of four feet ten inches, and the Jakuns of Singapore, rising to five feet.
From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Edward Tyson
In the case of the Semangs we have the kinless totemic belief and custom existing within a kinless society.
From Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme
East of Bali, however, the Orang Binua re-appear, and here the type is that of the Semangs.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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