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The Tobelo, along with the related Galela and Loloda, live in North Maluku province, Indonesia, mainly on the islands of Halmahera and Morotai. Until the late 1980s, the Tobelo consisted of both inland forest-dwelling nomadic hunter-foragers and settled coastal villagers engaged in swidden agriculture and fishing. The two groups shared a language, were bound by kinship and affinal ties, exchanged localized resources, and were loosely organized into socio-territorial domains according to landscape, history, and ancestry; the principle social distinction was that the coastal Tobelo had converted to Christianity and were relatively integrated within the Indonesian state. Despite subsequent conversion and resettlement in coastal villages, the Forest Tobelo have come to consider themselves a distinct ethnic group due to continued identification with a forest lifestyle, and a lingering resentment of being treated as inferiors by their coastal brethren.

Ethnic identity, Christian conversion and resettlement among the Forest Tobelo of northeastern Halmahera, Indonesia

Untangling conversion

De Tobeloreezen in hun denken en doen

The Tobelo of Eastern Halmahera in the context of the field of anthropological study

The healing gift

Health as a social condition

Transforming Tobelo ritual

Tobelo, Moro, Ternate

Galela und Tobeloresen

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The practice of local wisdom of Tobelo Dalam (Togutil)

Climate changes mitigate anticipation strategy based on local wisdom

Tobelorese deixis

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Duncan, Christopher R.	Ethnic identity, Christian conversion and resettlement among the Forest Tobelo of northeastern Halmahera, Indonesia	1998
Duncan, Christopher R.	Untangling conversion	2003
Hueting, A.	De Tobeloreezen in hun denken en doen	1921
Hueting, A.	De Tobeloreezen in hun denken en doen	1922
Platenkamp, Jos. D. M.	The Tobelo of Eastern Halmahera in the context of the field of anthropological study	1984
Platenkamp, Jos. D. M.	The healing gift	1996
Platenkamp, Jos. D. M.	Health as a social condition	1998
Platenkamp, Jos. D. M.	Transforming Tobelo ritual	1992
Platenkamp, Jos. D. M.	Tobelo, Moro, Ternate	1993
Riedel, J. G. F. (Johan Gerard Friedrich)	Galela und Tobeloresen	1885
Skoggard, Ian A.	Culture Summary	2023
Tamalene, M. Nasir	The practice of local wisdom of Tobelo Dalam (Togutil)	2014
Tamalene, M. Nasir	Climate changes mitigate anticipation strategy based on local wisdom	2015
Taylor, Paul Michael	Tobelorese deixis	1984

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