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Article: `Document Orang Asli traditions'
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- July 11, 2000
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Geraldine Albela
New Straits Times
07-11-2000
`Document Orang Asli traditions'
Byline: Geraldine Albela
Edition: Life and Times; 2*
Section: People
Memo: (STF) - Orang Asli traditions, culture and rituals will die out if they are not documented, writes Geraldine Albela.
ORANG Asli traditions need to be re-defined and documented to provide for uniformity if its culture is to be preserved.
This is the opinion of an academician at a recent seminar on Orang Asli culture in Ipoh.
Juli Edo of Universiti Malaya said in a paper, "The Role of Tradition in the Orang Asli System in Perak" that it was necessary to preserve cultures of the Orang Asli through codification, as had been done with the native ...