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

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Ellen, Roy.
Imprint:Leiden KITLV Press 2012.
Description:1 online resource (xxviii, 356 pages).
Language:English
Series:Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 283
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 283.
Subject:
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12625552
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9789004253452
9004253459
9789067183918
9067183911
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. 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).

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000Mu 4500
001 12625552
005 20220624111547.0
006 m o d
007 cu uuu---auuuu
008 120720s2012 ne ob 001 u eng d
019 |a 957953718  |a 1229835155 
020 |a 9789004253452  |q (electronic bk.) 
020 |a 9004253459  |q (electronic bk.) 
020 |z 9789067183918 
020 |z 9067183911 
035 |a (OCoLC)842296407  |z (OCoLC)957953718  |z (OCoLC)1229835155 
035 9 |a (OCLCCM-CC)842296407 
040 |a KIJ  |b eng  |e pn  |c KIJ  |d OCLCQ  |d E7B  |d CUS  |d YDXCP  |d N$T  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCQ  |d YDX  |d COO  |d OCLCQ  |d WY@  |d OCLCF  |d OCLCQ  |d UEJ  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO 
043 |a a-io--- 
049 |a MAIN 
050 4 |a BL2120.M35 
072 7 |a OCC  |x 036020  |2 bisacsh 
072 7 |a REL  |x 017000  |2 bisacsh 
100 1 |a Ellen, Roy.  |4 aut 
245 1 0 |a Nuaulu Religious Practices; The frequency and reproduction of rituals in a Moluccan society. 
260 |a Leiden  |b KITLV Press  |c 2012. 
300 |a 1 online resource (xxviii, 356 pages). 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
490 1 |a Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ;  |v 283 
520 |a 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). 
546 |a English. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
650 0 |a Nuaulu (Indonesian people)  |x Rites and ceremonies. 
650 0 |a Nuaulu (Indonesian people)  |x Religion. 
650 0 |a Rites and ceremonies  |z Indonesia  |z Maluku. 
651 0 |a Maluku (Indonesia)  |x Religious life and customs. 
650 6 |a Nuaulu (Peuple d'Indonésie)  |x Rites et cérémonies. 
650 6 |a Nuaulu (Peuple d'Indonésie)  |x Religion. 
650 6 |a Rites et cérémonies  |z Indonésie  |z Moluques. 
651 6 |a Moluques (Indonésie)  |x Vie religieuse. 
650 7 |a Society and social sciences.  |2 bicssc 
650 7 |a BODY, MIND & SPIRIT  |x Spirituality  |x Paganism & Neo-Paganism.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a RELIGION  |x Comparative Religion.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Rites and ceremonies.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01098216 
651 7 |a Indonesia  |z Maluku.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01206937 
653 |a religion 
653 |a religious practices 
653 |a religious tension 
653 |a rituals 
653 |a sociology 
653 |a ethnography 
653 |a Maluku 
653 |a Indonesia 
655 4 |a Electronic books. 
773 0 |t Books at JSTOR: Open Access  |d JSTOR 
773 0 |t OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks)  |d OAPEN 
830 0 |a Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ;  |v 283.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42025907 
856 4 0 |u https://brill.com/view/title/23425  |y Promoted: Local to Global Cooperative 
903 |a HeVa 
929 |a oclccm 
999 f f |i b70db93b-c73c-5cb9-bd6a-37d7bc0612a1  |s 70403bd5-4160-550e-b17a-6bf8ee0abeb4 
928 |t Library of Congress classification  |a BL2120.M35  |l Online  |c UC-FullText  |u https://brill.com/view/title/23425  |z Promoted: Local to Global Cooperative  |g ebooks  |i 12712203