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Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; volume 283 |
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Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 283.
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English. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Things, cycles and exchanges -- Introduction -- In relation to theories of ritual -- The concept of ritual reproduction -- A point of methodology -- Clans, houses and social organization -- Nuaulu rituals as events -- Rituals as work and work as ritual -- The organization of the analysis -- Components of ritual performance -- Introduction -- Cognitive architecture -- Material paraphernalia -- Food and feasting -- Words and movements: kahuae -- Spirit participants -- Divisions of labour -- Scripts, schemas and sequences: the syntax of ritual composition -- Life-cycle rituals: birth -- Introduction -- Birth ritual -- The posune -- Birth and post-natal care -- Erecting the asinokoe -- The washing ceremony at the posune -- Reintegration ritual: first day -- Reintegration ritual: second day -- First hair-cutting ceremony -- Variation and change -- Frequency and periodicity -- Life-cycle rituals: female puberty (nahane pinamou) -- Introduction -- First menstrual seclusion -- Entering ritual -- Preparations for coming-out ceremony -- At the posune: the washing ceremony -- At the clan sacred house -- The second day -- At the hatu pinamou -- Variation, change and periodicity in female puberty rites -- Life-cycle rituals: male puberty ceremonies (matahenne) -- Introduction -- The morite relationship -- Preparations -- First day: bathing -- First day: dressing -- Walk to the hantetane -- At the hantetane -- Investiture with barkcloth -- Sacrificing the cuscus -- Return to the village -- The second day -- Variation and change in matahenne -- Periodicity and frequency of matahenne -- The connecting logic in rituals of sexual maturation -- Life-cycle rituals: adulthood and death -- Introduction -- Investiture with tupu-tupue -- Variation and periodicity of tupu-tupue ceremonies -- Mortuary rituals -- Default death -- preparation of the corpse -- At hatu nohue -- Case studies -- Post-funeral mortuary practices -- The symbolic geography of death as a ritual mnemonic -- Variation in mortuary rituals -- Periodicity and change -- Rituals of the house -- The house defined -- The pre-life of houses -- Planting the first post and erecting the frame -- Roofing, walls and floors -- Transfer of valuables into a new house -- Rituals of things -- Completion ceremonies -- Variation and change -- Frequency and periodicity -- Rituals of the suane -- Introduction -- The suane defined -- The suane as a physical structure -- The suane and kahuae -- The pre-life of the suane -- Planting the first post -- Installing the fireplace -- Planting and transplanting kokine -- Entering the suane for the first time -- Completing the cycle -- The great kahuae festival -- Variation, change and periodicity -- Managing ritual -- Quantifying and comparing ritual events -- The coherence of ritual and the consequences of differential frequency -- Subsistence rituals as default models -- Planning, sequencing and coordinating interlocking cycles -- The precision of performance: social tension, retribution and redemption -- How and why rituals change -- Size matters: demography, mobility and viability -- The consequences of civil disturbance, 1999-2003 -- Summary and conclusions -- Postscript: the end of ritual? -- Glossary -- Appendix: log of Nuaulu ritual events attended and described, 1970-2003 -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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How religious practices are reproduced has become a major theoretical issue. This work examines data on Nuaulu ritual performances collected over a 30 year period, comparing different categories of event in terms of frequency and periodicity. It seeks to identify the influencing factors and the consequences for continuity. Such an approach enables a focus on related issues: variation in performance, how rituals change in relation to material and social conditions, the connections between different ritual types, the way these interact as cycles, and the extent to which fidelity of transmission is underpinned by a common model or repertoire of elements. This monograph brings to completion a long-term study of the religious behaviour of the Nuaulu, a people of the island of Seram in the Indonesian province of Maluku. Ethnographically, it is important for several reasons: the Nuaulu are one of the few animist societies remaining on Seram; the data emphasize patterns of practices in a part of Indonesia where studies have hitherto been more concerned with meaning and symbolic classification; and because Nuaulu live in an area where recent political tension has been between Christians and Muslims. Nuaulu are, paradoxically, both caught between these two groups, and apart from them. Full text (Open Access). |
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Rites and ceremonies.
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Nuaulu (Indonesian people) -- Indonesia -- Maluku -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Nuaulu (Indonesian people) -- Religion.
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Rites et cérémonies.
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Nuaulu (Peuple d'Indonésie) -- Indonésie -- Moluques -- Rites et cérémonies.
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Nuaulu (Peuple d'Indonésie) -- Religion.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
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Rites and ceremonies
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Indonesia -- Maluku
https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJhxjv9wKXtjHGvGxh8DMP
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| Added Title |
Nuaulu Religious Practices: The Frequency and Reproduction of Rituals in Moluccan Society |
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Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume 283 |
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Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde vol. 283 |
| Subseries Of: |
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 1572-1892 (CKB)1000000000708201 (DLC) 93033344 (OCoLC)1753306 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9067183911 |
| ISBN |
9004253459 |
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9789004253452 |
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9067183911 |
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9789067183918 |
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129978397X |
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9781299783973 |
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9789004263680 |
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9004263683 |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004253452. doi |
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AU@ 000052935807 |
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AU@ 000066529401 |
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