Nuaulu religious practices : the frequency and reproduction of rituals in Moluccan society / Roy Ellen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellen, R. F., 1947- author.

Series:

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 283.

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 283

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuaulu (Indonesian people)--Rites and ceremonies.

Nuaulu (Indonesian people).

Maluku (Indonesia)--Religious life and customs.

Maluku (Indonesia).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 356 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Leiden - Boston Brill 2012

Leiden, Netherlands : KITLV Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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)

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Roy Ellen

Chapter 1: Things, cycles and exchanges / Roy Ellen

Chapter 2: Components of ritual performance / Roy Ellen

Chapter 3: Life-cycle rituals: birth / Roy Ellen

Chapter 4: Life-cycle rituals: female puberty (nuhune pinamou) / Roy Ellen

Chapter 5: Life-cycle rituals: male puberty ceremonies (matahenne) / Roy Ellen

Chapter 6: Life-cycle rituals: adulthood and death / Roy Ellen

Chapter 7: Rituals of the house / Roy Ellen

Chapter 8: Rituals of the suane / Roy Ellen

Chapter 9: Managing ritual / Roy Ellen

Glossary / Roy Ellen

Appendix / Roy Ellen

Bibliography / Roy Ellen

Index / Roy Ellen.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (JSTOR, viewed June 29, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9789004253452

9004253459

OCLC:

869438209

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004253452 DOI

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access