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Personal religion and magic in Mamasa, West Sulawesi : the search for powers of blessing from the other world of the gods / by Kees Buijs.
- Title
- Personal religion and magic in Mamasa, West Sulawesi : the search for powers of blessing from the other world of the gods / by Kees Buijs.
- Author
- Buijs, Kees, 1944-
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
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- Description
- ix, 163 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- 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 gods are sought for their powers of blessing. This book adds important information to Buijs' earlier 'Powers of Blessing from the Wilderness and from Heaven' (Brill, 2006).
- Series Statement
- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, land- en Volkenkunde ; volume 308
- Uniform Title
- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 308.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Religion and magic -- Headlines of the religion of the Toraja's in West Sulawesi -- Pairan, individual religious responsibility -- Stones and incantations, vestiges from the other world of the gods -- Pairan and magic, personal religion in daily life.
- ISBN
- 9789004326569
- 9004326561
- LCCN
- ^^2016036862
- OCLC
- 951955856
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library