Personal religion and magic in Mamasa, West Sulawesi : : the search for powers of blessing from the other world of the gods / / by Kees Buijs.
In Personal Religion and Magic in Mamasa, West Sulawesi , Kees Buijs describes the traditional culture of the Toraja’s, which is rapidly vanishing. The focus is on personal religion as it has its centre in the kitchen of each house. In the kitchen and also by the use of magical words and stones the...
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| Superior document: | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume 308 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017. ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ;
Volume 308. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (173 pages) :; color illustrations, map, photographs. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Kees Buijs
- Introduction / Kees Buijs
- Religion and Magic / Kees Buijs
- Headlines of the Religion of the Toraja’s in West Sulawesi / Kees Buijs
- Pairan, Individual Religious Responsibility / Kees Buijs
- Stones and Incantations, Vestiges from the Other World of the Gods / Kees Buijs
- Pairan and Magic, Personal Religion in Daily Life / Kees Buijs
- Glossary / Kees Buijs
- Bibliography / Kees Buijs
- Index / Kees Buijs.