Competitive Hospitality: Ritual Exchanges in the Periphery of West Papua Province, Indonesia
This research is based in Northern Raja Ampat, in Indonesia’s West Papua Province, including its outermost territory, the Ayau Islands. This research explores how the nature of these archipelagoes allows people to hunt and share through the hospitality of feasts. Family clans who are able to collect...
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| Ngôn ngữ: | Anglais |
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Journal de la société des océanistes
2021
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Tóm tắt: | This research is based in Northern Raja Ampat, in Indonesia’s West Papua Province, including its outermost territory, the Ayau Islands. This research explores how the nature of these archipelagoes allows people to hunt and share through the hospitality of feasts. Family clans who are able to collect turtles and present them in large quantities at Christmas are able to maintain their pride and honor. I refer to this process here as “competitive hospitality”. Custom (adat) and religion are intertwined in promoting this “competitive hospitality”. The main objects discussed in this paper are dishes and turtles. The difficult seas and the distances involved in turtle hunting are considered hazardous. The practice of turtle hunting thus contributes to the reputation of bravery amongst hunters and the sacrifice of their clans (marga) in presenting hospitality to other clans. |
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