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Small Sacrifices by Anne Schiller, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Anne Schiller

Current price: $80.50
Small Sacrifices by Anne Schiller, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Small Sacrifices by Anne Schiller, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Small Sacrifices by Anne Schiller, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Anne Schiller

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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 intransportation 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 clearlyseen 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 thestandardization 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 secondarytreatment of the dead, with multiple and complex meanings for Hindu Kaharingan Ngaju, as well as for those who have converted to Christianity or Islam. | Small Sacrifices by Anne Schiller, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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