Small Sacrifices: Religious Change and Cultural Identity Among the Ngaju of IndonesiaOxford University Press, 1997 - 178 halaman Small Sacrifices is an ethnographic study of Ngaju Dayaks, rain forest dwellers of the remote interior region of Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Like many indigenous peoples throughout the world, the Ngaju have recently been affected by exposure to world religions, by improvements in transportation and communication, by new demands on family-based production, and by other factors pertaining to their growing incorporation into an expanding state system in an era of rapid political and economic change. The Ngaju response to these pressures, Anne Schiller contends, is most clearly seen in the religious sphere. Over the past two decades, many Ngaju have taken to recasting and reinterpreting their indigenous religion, known formerly as Kaharingan, and now as Hindu Kaharingan. Paradoxically, this process of religious change involves the codification of religious belief and the standardization of ritual. It also includes efforts to distinguish "religious practices" from other "customs." These developments figure importantly in the construction of modern Ngaju identity. The author focuses especially on the form and content of tiwah, an elaborate ritual of secondary treatment of the dead, with multiple and complex meanings for Hindu Kaharingan Ngaju, as well as for those who have converted to Christianity or Islam. |
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adat adherents of Hindu Agama Angkes animate essence balian bamboo Banjarmasin basarah Basir Muka belief blood bone repositories Borneo celebration Central Kalimantan chant Christian claim coffin cognates conceptualizations cosmological Daerah dance Dayak dead death ritual deceased deceased's Duhung East Kalimantan ethnic example GOLKAR gongs hadat hantuen head specialist Hindu Duty Council Hindu Kaharingan Hinduism hornbill human identity indigenous religion Indonesian Islam Jakarta Kahayan River Kahayan villagers Kalimantan Tengah Kapuas River Katingan kinship kula liau living Lowerworld Maharaja marriage mourners Ngaju cultural Ngaju Dayak non-kin oloh origin myth ossuary Palangka Raya pali Pancasila participants particular patahu Penyang performance Prosperous Village provincial Raja Ranying Hatalla relationship religious remains rice ritual forms ritual specialists sacrifice Saililah sandung sangiang sangkaraya sapundu Schärer secondary mortuary ritual slaves social souls sponsors of tiwah Suara Pembaruan supernatural Supreme Council Tahuman Tempo tion tiwah Toraja traditional tukang hanteran Unclean Upperworld upriver village guardian water buffalo