Personal Religion and Magic in Mamasa, West Sulawesi : The Search for Powers of Blessing From the Other World of the Gods
Personal Religion and Magic in Mamasa, West Sulawesi :
The Search for Powers of Blessing From the Other World of the Gods
by Kees Buijs
English | 2016 | ISBN: 9004326561 | 174 Pages | PDF | 10 MB
The Search for Powers of Blessing From the Other World of the Gods
by Kees Buijs
English | 2016 | ISBN: 9004326561 | 174 Pages | PDF | 10 MB
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).
Kees Buijs, Ph.D. Anthropology (2004), Leiden University, has served in the Netherlands as reverend and in Indonesia and in South Africa as trainer. During fifteen years he alternated between Mamasa, Sulawesi, and the area of KwaNdebele, South Africa, for educational tasks.