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ritual and cultural reproduction in non‐Islamic Java
Author(s) -
HEFNER ROBERT W.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1983.10.4.02a00030
Subject(s) - hinduism , islam , reproduction , mythology , sociology , relation (database) , anthropology , cultural history , order (exchange) , history , social science , religious studies , philosophy , classics , archaeology , ecology , finance , database , biology , computer science , economics
Recent studies link the problem of cultural transmission to the larger issue of how we conceptualize cultural history and integration. I address this question here by examining reproduction and change in lava's only surviving Indic priesthood. The conflict of meanings characteristic of priestly and popular ritual culture in modern Tengger has a history shaped by the differing modes of cultural transmission around which this non‐Islamic tradition was organized. I also raise some questions as to the relation of social order to cultural form and of public symbolism to private thought, [cultural transmission, religious change, Indonesia, Islam and Hinduism, myth and ritual]