Balancing the spiritual and physical worlds: Memory, responsibility and survival in the rituals of the Sama Dilaut (Bajau laut) in Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi, Southern Philippines and Semporna, Sabah, Malaysia

• Main Author: Hussin, H.
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DS Asia
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/11446/1/balancing_th_the_spiritual.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/11446/

This paper looks at ritual processes as means of fulfilling responsibilities between the dwellers of the physical world and the spirit world among the Bajau Laut. Ritual is, among many other ways, seen as a transactional event that binds individuals of a given community and habitues of the spirit wo...