Deviant Spirits in West Malaysian Factories

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  • Susan McLellan Saskatchewan Executive Council

Abstract

This paper examines spirit possession among Malay female factory workers and shows the way in which a "normal" village reaction to stress in rural areas has been transformed into "deviance" by foreign owned transnational corporations operating in the new urban industrial estates.

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2022-05-30

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McLellan, S. (2022). Deviant Spirits in West Malaysian Factories. Anthropologica, 33(1/2), 145–160. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/1837

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Vol. 33 No. 1/2 (1991): The Anthropology of Deviance

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