Ngaju Religion: The Conception of God among a South Borneo - download pdf or read online

Read or Download Ngaju Religion: The Conception of God among a South Borneo People PDF

Similar behavioral sciences books

R Mclaran Sawyer, Keith Prichard's Handbook of College Teaching: Theory and Applications (The PDF

Schools have gotten more and more interested in the standard of undergraduate guide, and school are devoting extra cognizance to bettering their instructing abilities. This quantity may help university college enhance their functionality within the lecture room. The e-book includes beneficial theoretical details at the studying kinds of students, and it provides useful details on the right way to train classes particularly disciplines.

Download e-book for iPad: Living Islam: Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan's by Magnus Marsden

Renowned representations of Pakistan's North-West Frontier have lengthy featured simplistic pictures of tribal blood feuds, fanatical faith, and the seclusion of ladies. the increase to strength of the novel Taliban regime in neighboring Afghanistan greater the region's recognition as a spot of anti-Western militancy.

Download e-book for kindle: Culture: a problem that cannot be solved by Charles W. Nuckolls

French historian Alexis de Tocqueville saw that the clash among the beliefs of individualism and neighborhood defines American tradition. during this groundbreaking new paintings, anthropologist Charles Nuckolls discovers that each tradition involves such paradoxes, hence making tradition an issue that can not be solved.

Download e-book for iPad: The Psychopathic Mind: Origins, Dynamics, and Treatment by Reid J. Meloy

Forensic psychologist Reid Meloy identifies psychopathology as a deviant improvement disturbance characterised via inordinate instinctual aggression and the absence of a capability bond. it's the definitive publication at the topic. A Jason Aronson publication

• Encyclopedia of Anthropology (5 Volume Set)
• Understanding Behaviorism: Behavior, Culture, and Evolution
• Queer French
• Predicative Minds: The Social Ontogeny of Propositional Thinking (Bradford Books)
• John Arden
• The Sorcerer's Burden : The Ethnographic Saga of a Global Family

Additional info for Ngaju Religion: The Conception of God among a South Borneo People

Sample text

The new creation originates in the deart:h of the total godhead. The same sacred contest is encountered everywhere in religious ceremonies at which the sacred primeval events are re-enacted : at birth, initiation, marriage, and in the great mortuary feast at which it is extensively perfonned. It is also found in judicial affairs. 1lh. Further aJttention will be paid to this below. This sacred contest belongs to the category of potlatch-feast, of which we possess very guad desoriptions and definitions 29 which make it utlJllecesary for us to elalbornte the poinlt.

As are the descendants of Tanta Olang Bulau. Maharaja Sangiang and Maharaja Buno remain completely in the background. \Vhat does this mean? Maharaja Buno represents the group which in spite of the "falling iron" is associated with the C nderworld and the \ \' atersnake. :\Iaharaja Sangiang represents the other group. which is associated with the upperworld. His habitation and the names of his sons are evidence of this. Ramparan Buno is the weapon-rack in \vhich all weapons are placed, or against which they are rested.

CHAPTER IV THE DWELLING PLACES OF THE SUPREME DEITIES 1. The habitation of M ahataJa. Mahatala lives on the primeval mountain in the Upperworld, which is raised above the world inhabited by mankind. Us entrance, in the ~hape of a wide river, is reached by ascending through forty-two layers of cloud, each with its own name. The Upperworld is a faithful image of this world, but everything there is richer and more beautiful. On the many rivers and lakes there live the sangiang, descendants of two of the three brothers of the first human couple.

Download PDF sample