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Berichte und Kommentare 
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Anthropos 99.2004 
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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
	        
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