Black plastic foolscap file, 35 x 25.5 cm

Reference No:
U DJA/3/4/3
Dates:
1962 - 1972
Description:

Containing the following:

1) A text in the rencong script. 3ff., foolscap, copied in pencil (transferred to DJA/2/2), n.d.

2) Man Aher and Muhammad Tuhir: Rejang concepts of reproduction. Tapus, 14 June 1962. 2ff., foolscap + 3ff., quarto, English, with explanations of Rejang terms. Referred to as C 2 in Rejang Texts and Anthropological Notes - Consolidated List - Index C. (C 2 = Rejang 91A = DJA/6/1/4XV), 14 June 1962.

3) Helen Jaspan: Mur in our house: Sex relationships, illegitimacy, abortion. Tapus, 16 June 1962. 2ff., English. Referred to as C 3 in Rejang Texts and Anthropological Notes - Consolidated List - Index C. (C 3 + Rejang 99A = A 19), 16 June 1962

4) Imansiyah: Asal dukun, asal benatang-benatang, asal jin setan kuni do. Tapus, 5 June 1962. 1f., Rejang. (The origins of the indigenous doctor, of animals, and of evil spirits). Referred to as C 4 in Rejang Texts and Anthropological Notes - Consolidated List - Index C.(C 4 = Rejang 76 = J 2 = 8), 5 June 1962.

5) Man Aher: Serembe'an tun tenge'a balui panyang: A ceremonial address. Tapus, 1 June 1962. 1f., Rejang, with English note. Referred to as C 5 in Rejang Texts and Anthropological Notes - Consolidated List - Index C. (1 June 1962) M.A. Jaspan: The biography of a Rejang folk doctor, Man Aher of Tapus, c.1888-1964. n.d., 3ff., English. Referred to as C 6 in Rejang Texts and Anthropological Notes - Consolidated List - Index C. (C 6 = Rejang 210 = J 1 = DJA/4/5/2/3)

7) Charles Leslie, New York University, 'Research needs to develop the comparative study of Asian medical systems', 'Asian Studies Professional Review', vol.1, no.2, Spring 1972, pp.12-17. Photocopy, 3ff.

8) We the people of Djang: a study in the ethnology of the Rejang of South Sumatra. 2ff., typescript. (Outline for a monograph by M.A. Jaspan), n.d.

9) M.A. Jaspan, 'A note on public sentiments and morale in South Sumatra in the closing Guided Democracy period (1963-1965). 7ff., typescript, foolscap, with handwritten emendations. The date of the original draft is noted as 22 November 1963.

10) M.A. Jaspan, 'Mdundang, the great Rejang padi fertility festival'. 9ff., quarto + 5ff., A4, typescript. Compare also Rejang 122, a short text.

11) M.A. Jaspan: field notebook. A bound notebook, 21 x 15.5 cm, 175 pp. P.1 is headed: 'Lb. Durian, 4 March 1963 - Pasirah's house'. The book contains various notes, with some genealogical diagrams, and was mostly written in March 1963.

Note: This looks as if it has been displaced from DJA/5/1: Field notes of M.A. Jaspan - a series of 31 notebooks, mostly on the Rejang from June 1961 to March 1963.

Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 file
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Papers of Professor Mervyn Aubrey Jaspan (1926-1975)