A study of weather-magic as a major constituent of Inner Asian Turkic and Mongol natural religion. Weather-magic is a particular type of magic, a structured set of beliefs and the rites connected to then, rites aimed at affecting changes in the weather.

Weather-Magic in Inner Asia (Uralic & Altaic Series Vol. 158)

History

Molnár, A

Asia

Sinor Research Institute of Inner Asian Studies

<i>Grandchildren of the Gaíe Ancestors</i> focuses on the social organization, cosmology and ritual system of Hoga Sara society on the island of Flores. The first anthropological account of this eastern Indonesian people, this study challenges the classical models of descent and alliance by demonstrating the limitations of these analytical abstractions for understanding the social system of the Hoga Sara. The intricacies of social organization and the formation of social identities of groups and individuals are disentangled by utilizing the concepts of 'house society', 'origin structures' and 'orders of precedence'. Aspects focused on include the pivotal role of the first-born, historical development of the society, sacrificial practices, and the instrumental role of the ritual system in the continuing exchanges among people and with their ancestors.

Grandchildren of the Ga'e Ancestors: Social Organization and Cosmology Among the Hoga Sara of Flores (Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land)

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

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