Small Sacrifices

Name: Small Sacrifices
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Religious Change and Cultural Identity Among the Ngaju of Indonesia

Autor: Anne Schiller

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Small Sacrifices is an ethnographic study of Ngaju Dayaks, rain forest dwellers of the remote interi...

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Autor

Anne Schiller

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engleză

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Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1997

Pagini

190

EAN

9780195095586

ISBN

0195095588

Enbook ID

04513572

Editura

Oxford University Press Inc

Greutate

311

Dimensiuni

154 x 234 x 15

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Small Sacrifices is an ethnographic study of Ngaju Dayaks, rain forest dwellers of the remote interior region of Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Like many indigenous peoples throughout the world, the Ngaju have recently been affected by exposure to world religions, by improvements in transportation and communication, by new demands on family-based production, and by other factors pertaining to their growing incorporation into an expanding state system in an era of rapid political and economic change. The Ngaju response to these pressures, Anne Schiller contends, is most clearly seen in the religious sphere. Over the past two decades, many Ngaju have taken to recasting and reinterpreting their indigenous religion, known formerly as Kaharingan, and now as Hindu Kaharingan. Paradoxically, this process of religious change involves the codification of religious belief and the standardization of ritual. It also includes efforts to distinguish "religious practices" from other "customs." These developments figure importantly in the construction of modern Ngaju identity. The author focuses especially on the form and content of tiwah, an elaborate ritual of secondary treatment of the dead, with multiple and complex meanings for Hindu Kaharingan Ngaju, as well as for those who have converted to Christianity or Islam.

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