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1 online resource. |
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
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English. |
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Rites and ceremonies.
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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) |
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Indonesia -- Maluku. |
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Nuaulu (Indonesian people) -- Religion.
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Religion. |
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Electronic books.
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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
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| 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 |
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