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Contemporary Zoological
Transformation and the Semai
of Malaysia
An Addendum to Forth (1998)
Gregory Forth
In an article published several years ago, and de
voted to ideas about animal transformation among
the Nage of eastern Indonesia, I mentioned that
evidence for a belief in “contemporary zoologi
cal transformation” - a regular metamorphosis of
animals of one kind into animals of another kind
- is not “clearly present among non-Austronesian
aboriginal populations of Peninsular Malaysia,”
somewhat in contrast to what has been reported
for the Malays of that region (Forth 1998: 272).
Recently, I had occasion to read again Robert Den-
tan’s well-known monograph on the Semai aborig
inals (1968), where I came across a statement that
appears to contradict the foregoing assessment. In
a footnote on page 99, Dentan briefly refers to
Semai reports of striped frogs “chang[ing] into
tigers and vice versa, eels into cobras, and so
forth.” The author remarks that many Semai doubt
whether these transformations ever occur. At the
same time, he states without further clarification
that some food restrictions observed by menstru
ating women are “explained as precautions against
such transformations.”
Although Dentan’s observations may appear to
qualify my generalization about Malaysian aborig
inals, how far they actually do so is moot. A key
element of my definition of “contemporary zoo
logical transformations” is that the idea involves
animals of one kind permanently changing into an