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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Publicado en:Oceania Vol. 89; no. 3; pp. 266 - 284
Autor principal: Chao, Sophie
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Nov2019
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