Add to ORKGAbstract: Chinese New Year in the West Kalimantan town of Singkawang is marked by a parade featuring hundreds of possessed spirit-mediums performing self-mortification and blood sacrifice. The event is a huge tourist draw, but beyond the spectacle, deeper meanings are enacted. The spirit-medium procession stages a fraternity of Dayak, Malay and Chinese earth gods united in the purpose of exorcising demons from the neighborhood. The self-conscious presentation of the Chinese as brethren among pribumi [sons-of-the-soil] Dayak and Malay, proposes the Chinese as belonging to the ‘peoplehood ’ of West Kalimantan
In the Reformation era, the Chinese-Indonesians enjoy more freedom in expressing their ethnic identi...
Hakkanese experienced several major migrations and ultimately distributed in every corner of the wor...
Singkawang is one of the municipalities and part of the Sambas district, second largest after the ci...
Singapore Management University Office of ResearchEdited by Sai Siew-Min and Hoon Chang-Yau</p
‘Before religion, there was tradition’ (sebelum ada agama, adat sudah wujud) is an expression common...
The belief towards the spirit medium is one of the oldest beliefs in Chinese folk religion. This res...
Chinese spirit mediumship is an intricate part of the Chinese religious system. A Chinese religions ...
This paper attempts to shed light on the context of religiosity which is very pluralistic and dynami...
Frans Ari Prasetyo is a scholar working at the Bandung Institute of Technology whose work focuses on...
abstract CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION OF ETHNIC TIONGHOA (TAKE THE NECESSARY PSYCHOSOCIOLOGICAL IMPL...
This graduating paper aims to discuss about Lunar New Year (Imlek) as a tradition in Tionghoa cultur...
Abstract: In the aftermath of the May 1998 riots that forced President Suharto to step down, ethnic ...
This thesis explains the ritual of ghost month, Djit Gwee, which is preserved and performed by the C...
This paper explores the challenge of spirit mediums to the secular project in China and Singapore. D...
Through an examination of two festivals – Qing Ming and Cap Go Meh – in the town of Singkawang in In...
In the Reformation era, the Chinese-Indonesians enjoy more freedom in expressing their ethnic identi...
Hakkanese experienced several major migrations and ultimately distributed in every corner of the wor...
Singkawang is one of the municipalities and part of the Sambas district, second largest after the ci...
Singapore Management University Office of ResearchEdited by Sai Siew-Min and Hoon Chang-Yau</p
‘Before religion, there was tradition’ (sebelum ada agama, adat sudah wujud) is an expression common...
The belief towards the spirit medium is one of the oldest beliefs in Chinese folk religion. This res...
Chinese spirit mediumship is an intricate part of the Chinese religious system. A Chinese religions ...
This paper attempts to shed light on the context of religiosity which is very pluralistic and dynami...
Frans Ari Prasetyo is a scholar working at the Bandung Institute of Technology whose work focuses on...
abstract CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION OF ETHNIC TIONGHOA (TAKE THE NECESSARY PSYCHOSOCIOLOGICAL IMPL...
This graduating paper aims to discuss about Lunar New Year (Imlek) as a tradition in Tionghoa cultur...
Abstract: In the aftermath of the May 1998 riots that forced President Suharto to step down, ethnic ...
This thesis explains the ritual of ghost month, Djit Gwee, which is preserved and performed by the C...
This paper explores the challenge of spirit mediums to the secular project in China and Singapore. D...
Through an examination of two festivals – Qing Ming and Cap Go Meh – in the town of Singkawang in In...
In the Reformation era, the Chinese-Indonesians enjoy more freedom in expressing their ethnic identi...
Hakkanese experienced several major migrations and ultimately distributed in every corner of the wor...
Singkawang is one of the municipalities and part of the Sambas district, second largest after the ci...