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How religious practices are reproduced has become a major theoretical issue. This work examines data on Nuaulu ritual performances collected over a 30 year period, comparing different categories of event in terms of frequency and periodicity. It seeks to identify the influencing factors and the consequences for continuity. Such an approach enables a focus on related issues: variation in performance, how rituals change in relation to material and social conditions, the connections between different ritual types, the way these interact as cycles, and the extent to which fidelity of transmission is underpinned by a common model or repertoire of elements. This monograph brings to completion a long-term study of the religious behaviour of the Nuaulu, a people of the island of Seram in the Indonesian province of Maluku. Ethnographically, it is important for several reasons: the Nuaulu are one of the few animist societies remaining on Seram; the data emphasize patterns of practices in a part of Indonesia where studies have hitherto been more concerned with meaning and symbolic classification; and because Nuaulu live in an area where recent political tension has been between Christians and Muslims. Nuaulu are, paradoxically, both caught between these two groups, and apart from them. Full text (Open Access)

Nuaulu (Indonesian people) --- Rites of passage --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- History & Archaeology --- East Asia --- Eastern Religions --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Traditions --- Patakai (Indonesian people) --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Ethnology --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Religion. --- Maluku (Indonesia) --- Religious life and customs. --- Moluccas (Indonesia) --- Spice Islands (Indonesia) --- Molukken (Indonesia) --- Propinsi Maluku (Indonesia) --- Islas Molucas (Indonesia) --- Moluchos (Indonesia) --- Molucas (Indonesia) --- Malucas (Indonesia) --- Moluccos (Indonesia) --- Provinsi Maluku (Indonesia) --- Pemerintah Provinsi Maluku (Indonesia) --- sociology --- religious tension --- indonesia --- rituals --- religious practices --- religion --- maluku --- ethnography --- Bamboo --- Betel --- Cuscus --- Kaaba --- Matoke --- Nuaulu people --- Puberty --- Sago