Untangling conversion: Religious change and identity among the forest tobelo of Indonesia
Date
2003
Authors
Duncan, Christopher
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University of Pittsburgh Press
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In the late 1980s, after decades of refusal, the Forest Tobelo foragers of northeastern Halmahera, Indonesia, converted to Christianity. The version of Christianity they accepted was not the one offered (or imposed) by coastal Tobelo-speaking communities
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Keywords: cultural identity; deforestation; religion; social change; Asia; Eurasia; Halmahera; Malay Archipelago; Moluccas; Southeast Asia
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Ethnology
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