Peacemaking Rituals in the Context of Natural Disaster
This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Indonesia and will raise questions about the meaning that cultures ascribe to potentially dangerous natural spaces. By tracing the mythological and ritual life of the local clans of the Lamaholot and Ngada people, one can note that the entire cosmol...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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| In: |
Worldviews
Year: 2016, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, Pages: 286-299 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Flores (Indonesia)
/ Indigenous peoples
/ Volcano
/ Natural catastrophe
/ Social conflict
/ Ritual
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AF Geography of religion AG Religious life; material religion BB Indigenous religions KBM Asia NCC Social ethics RC Liturgy |
| Further subjects: | B
indigenous cosmology
volcanoes
mythology
Indonesia
natural disaster
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Volltext (Verlag) |