Anthropos: Anthropos, 100.2005

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Titel:: Anthropos

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Titel:: Anthropos, 100.2005

Erscheinungsjahr:: 2005

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Titel:: Bd. 100, 2005, Heft 2

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ANTHROPOS 100.2005: 359-377 A Ritual Resurgence in Eastern Indonesia R. H. Barnes Abstract. - At the invitation of the eastern Indonesian village of Leuwayang, three researchers returned to Kedang to observe a revised harvest ritual once thought extinct. The article contains consideration of recent political changes in Indonesia affecting religious expression, describes the village birthday celebration and the series of community rituals that were subsequently carried out over a three-day period in the original village site. There follows a summary of the nightlong chant accompanying the reciting of male genealogies of the village with an explanation of its references to legendary village history. An attempt is made to place the chant within the comparative study of ritual language. The conclusion briefly tries to situate the rituals in relation to villagers’ preoccupations in the modem world. [Eastern Indonesia, Lembata, Kedang, ritual, religious politics, cultural revival and reinvention, ritual language] R. H. Barnes, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, Fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. - He has conducted extensive field research between 1969 and 2004 among the Kedang- and Lamaholot-speaking peoples of Flores, Adonara, Solor, and Lembata. - His publications include: Kedang. A Study of the Collective Thought of an Eastern Indonesian People (Oxford 1974); Sea Hunters of Indonesia. Fishers and Weavers of Lamalera (Oxford 1996); and numerous articles on eastern Indonesia. In July 1998 together with Ursula Samely and Ruth Barnes I returned to Kedang at the eastern end of the island of Lembata in eastern Indone sia in response to an invitation of villagers of Leuwayang. We were invited to attend an annual harvest ritual which had been extinct when I first conducted research there from 1969 to 1971 and revived some years after that research. There were in fact two more or less independent events within a few days of each other. The first was a village birthday celebration staged in the new part of the village at the beach. This celebration was also an innovation subsequent to my first research. The second event, called a utan (“we [inch]” or “I eat beans”) was a complex of ceremonies which took place over three days and nights in the traditional village site high in the mountain. Some Preliminary and Background Considerations I am not in the position to describe all of the shifts in perspective and changes in personal relation ships that may have contributed to reinstating a traditional ceremony which was once deemed to have disappeared for good. That there has been a change of attitudes is clear. In the 1960s, many Catholics and Muslims would have refused to par ticipate on religious grounds. In 1998 they took part with no sign of inhibition whatsoever. What can be said, however, is that in the background are several significant shifts in the politics of religion in Indonesia. Religion has been a politically sensi tive issue in Indonesia since the inception of the re public in 1945. It became acutely so following the attempted coup allegedly led by disaffected army officers with communist sympathies in 1965 and the subsequent slaughter of hundreds of thousands of persons. The official state ideology of pancasila prescribes belief in one God. In the aftermath of the coup attempt, the state, aided by the army, forced mass conversions to one of the recognized world religions. Those who did not convert ran the risk of being deemed communists. The late 1960s, therefore, was a period of fear and religious

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