essay
Transforming Tobelo ritual
Understanding rituals • London • Published In 1992 • Pages: 75-96
By: Platenkamp, Jos. D. M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study finds only modest changes in Tobelo communal rituals following conversion to Christianity. Core rituals related to marriage and deceased ancestors continued to be observed within major church-based collective prayers and periodic festivals. This continuity suggests that the Christian church has been integrated into to the Tobelo people’s vernacular conceptualization of society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Nuptials
- Kin relationships
- Burial practices and funerals
- Cult of the dead
- Cosmology
- Eschatology
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tobelo
- 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
- essay
- 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; 2021
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1979-1980, 1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1979-1982
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- J. D. M. Platenkamp
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-96)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92005657
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tobelo (Indonesian people)