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Religious beliefs of the Tawi-Tawi Bajau
Philippine studies • 38 (1) • Published In 1990 • Pages: 3-27
By: Nimmo, Harry.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Through analysis of healing rituals, divination ceremonies, and magical rites, this article discusses the religious beliefs and associated practices of the boat-dwelling Sama-Bajau, emphasizing continuities in fundamental elements of religious and magical beliefs despite the influence of surrounding adherents to Islam.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- Annual cycle
- Cultural identity and pride
- Boats
- Dwellings
- Community structure
- Kin relationships
- Inter-community relations
- General character of religion
- Animism
- Spirits and gods
- Cult of the dead
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Magic
- Avoidance and taboo
- Cosmology
- Theory of disease
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Revelation and divination
- Ethnopsychology
- Medical therapy
- Burial practices and funerals
- Eschatology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Sama-Bajau
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1963, 1965-1967, 1977, 1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1963-1982
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tawi-Tawi province, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines
- NotesAdditional notes
- H. Arlo Nimmo
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 56037474
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bajau (Southeast Asian people)