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Numerous local people and certain missionaries have sought to document and preserve traditional Dayak religious practices. For example, Reverend William Howell contributed numerous articles on the Iban language, lore, and culture between 1909 and 1910 to the Sarawak Gazette.
5 maj 2023 · Iban Religion. While most Iban people of today are Christian or Muslim, the tribe was traditionally animist.
Ibans (Bornean people) This is an ethnographic account of '…Iban behavior, the religious beliefs which are the basis for their way of life, the framework within which these exist, and the ends to which they are directed' (p. 5).
Iban Rites of Passage and Some Related Ritual Acts is an indispensable work for Iban scholars, both local and foreign, and particularly for those who have only recently taken up Iban studies.
21 lut 2019 · 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.
28 gru 2023 · 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,...
The Iban are currently Christianized and many still observe traditional rituals directed towards ancestors alongside the Christian God. Generally, the Iban are a Dayak people of Borneo. Often referred to as Sea Dayaks in the literature, as opposed to Land Dayaks, due to the Iban gaining a reputation
