How religious practices are reproduced has become a major theoretical issue. This work examines data on Nuaulu ritual performances collected over a 30 year peri
Nuaulu people on the Indonesian island of Seram have displayed remarkable linguistic and cultural resilience over a period of 50 years. In 1970 their language a
In 1945, Sukarno declared that the new Indonesian republic would be grounded on monotheism, while also insisting that the new nation would protect diverse relig
Organized around issues, debates and discussions concerning the various ways in which the concept of nature has been used, this book looks at how the term has b
The volume presents phenomena of classification and categorisation in ancient and modern cultures and provides an overview of how cultural practices and cogniti