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8 wrz 2022 · Open Library American Libraries. Featured. All Texts; Smithsonian Libraries; FEDLINK (US) Genealogy; ... The Iban and their religion by Jensen, Erik, 1933-Publication date 1974 Topics Iban (Bornean people) -- Religion ... Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date ...
Graham’s purpose is the analysis of “the cultural logic of Iban shamanism” (p. 1). To accomplish this, she provides an introduction in which she examines characteristics and concepts of shamanism cross-culturally. The Iban manang, “one who exercises power” (p. 2), approximates the shaman.
28 gru 2023 · In this paper, we describe one such society, the Iban, whose religious practices are often claimed to not include the worship of ancestors, despite ancestors being central to their religion.
The focus of this study is the interaction between Iban religion, traditionally one of ancestor worship and more recently syncretized with Christianity (Wadley, Pashia, & Palmer, 2006), and Iban cooperative practices, which usually consists of swidden rice horticulture, wild game hunting and fishing, and gathering wild vegetables (Wadley &
We demonstrate that many of the gods and spirits of the Iban supernatural pantheon are most clearly understood as ancestors. Furthermore, we argue that the Iban example may not be an outlier, and that ancestor worship may be prevalent in many more societies than previously claimed.
In this paper, we demonstrate the utility of a broad approach to ancestor worship with examples from the Iban of Borneo. Using data drawn from the ethnographic literature on the Iban, supplemented with ethnographic insights drawn from fieldwork in Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, we argue
From the perspective that religious behaviour involves communication among the living within the context of important social relationships, this article examines ancestor worship and the violation of mourning taboos among Iban in West
