Nuaulu Religious Practices; The frequency and reproduction of rituals in a Moluccan society

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 cons...

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description 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. Roy Ellen is Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent, a Fellow of The British Academy, and was president of the Royal Anthropological Institute between 2007 and 2011. He was trained at the London School of Economics and at the University of Leiden. Among his other books are The cultural relations of classification (on Nuaulu animal categories) and On the edge of the Banda zone (on trade in east Seram).
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-352022025-01-26T07:18:52Z Nuaulu Religious Practices; The frequency and reproduction of rituals in a Moluccan society Ellen, Roy sociology religious tension indonesia rituals religious practices religion maluku ethnography Bamboo Betel Cuscus Kaaba Matoke Nuaulu people Puberty Sago thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences 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. Roy Ellen is Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent, a Fellow of The British Academy, and was president of the Royal Anthropological Institute between 2007 and 2011. He was trained at the London School of Economics and at the University of Leiden. Among his other books are The cultural relations of classification (on Nuaulu animal categories) and On the edge of the Banda zone (on trade in east Seram). 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2012-07-20 00:00:00 2020-04-01T15:18:43Z 2012 book 421930 OCN: 1166171764 1572-2892;1572-1892 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34513 9789004253452 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35202 eng Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/34513/1/421930.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/34513/1/421930.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/34513/1/421930.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/34513/1/421930.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/34513/1/421930.pdf Brill 10.26530/OAPEN_421930 10.26530/OAPEN_421930 33fecb33-e7c4-4fc8-96b0-7ba2fccafba9 9789004253452 356 Leiden - Boston open access
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religious practices
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maluku
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Bamboo
Betel
Cuscus
Kaaba
Matoke
Nuaulu people
Puberty
Sago
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Nuaulu Religious Practices; The frequency and reproduction of rituals in a Moluccan society
title Nuaulu Religious Practices; The frequency and reproduction of rituals in a Moluccan society
title_full Nuaulu Religious Practices; The frequency and reproduction of rituals in a Moluccan society
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title_short Nuaulu Religious Practices; The frequency and reproduction of rituals in a Moluccan society
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topic sociology
religious tension
indonesia
rituals
religious practices
religion
maluku
ethnography
Bamboo
Betel
Cuscus
Kaaba
Matoke
Nuaulu people
Puberty
Sago
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences
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Betel
Cuscus
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Matoke
Nuaulu people
Puberty
Sago
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