Wrathful Ancestors, Corporate Sorcerers: Rituals gone Rogue in Merauke, West Papua.

Anthropological studies of ritual 'failure' challenge the assumed efficacy of ritual in affirming the social order. Drawing from fieldwork in West Papua, I examine the 'failure' and 'success' of two rain‐making ceremonies – one hosted by an indigenous Marind expert, the other by an Indonesian oil pa...

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Published in:	Oceania Vol. 89; no. 3; pp. 266 - 284
Main Author:	Chao, Sophie
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Nov2019
Subjects:	Papua (Indonesia) Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980 Social order Corporate power Supernatural Foreign corporations Ritual Oil palm
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost