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Nuaulu Religious Practices : the Frequency and Reproduction of Rituals in 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified]
Brill
2012.
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| Colección: | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.