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The Tobelo of Eastern Halmahera in the context of the field of anthropological studyessay 1984 • Platenkamp, Jos. D. M.
Tobelo • Asia > Southeast Asia
This work shows that Tobelo social organization lacked clearly-defined unilineal kinship groups, living instead in village communities consisting of a group of co-resident cognatic relatives. Members of each residential cognatic unit jointly owned an...The healing giftessay 1996 • Platenkamp, Jos. D. M.
Tobelo • Asia > Southeast Asia
This study discusses the centrality of gift exchanges between health practitioners and patients. The Tobelo perceive illness as manifestation of a broken relationship between a patient and certain supernatural entities, including the spirits of decea...Health as a social conditionarticle 1998 • Platenkamp, Jos. D. M.
Tobelo • Asia > Southeast Asia
The Tobelo tie illness to elements of traditional religion, believing one’s health depends on properly performing periodic sacrifices to the ancestors and other regular rituals. Illness is regarded as the result of an imbalance in the exchange betwee...Transforming Tobelo ritualessay 1992 • Platenkamp, Jos. D. M.
Tobelo • Asia > Southeast Asia
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...Tobelo, Moro, Ternatearticle 1993 • Platenkamp, Jos. D. M.
Tobelo • Asia > Southeast Asia
This critical look at Tobelo oral traditions and recorded myths aims to enhance historical understanding of interactions with neighboring ethnic groups and the dynamics of their subjugation by more powerful polities that ruled the area at times in th...