Balancing the human and spiritual worlds: Ritual, music, and dance among Dusunic societies in Sabah

• Main Author: Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2014
• Subjects: BL205-216 Nature and attributes of Deity; DS597.33-597.34 Sabah. British North Borneo; ML3544-3776 Folk, national, and ethnic music
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/30358/1/Balancing%20the%20human%20and%20spiritual%20worlds%2C%20Ritual%2C%20music%2C%20and%20dance%20among%20Dusunic%20societies%20in%20Sabah-Artikal.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/30358/; https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5921/yeartradmusi.46.2014.0170; https://doi.org/10.5921/yeartradmusi.46.2014.0170

The term mitimbang (“balanced”) is commonly used in indigenous Dusunic languages in Sabah, the east Malaysian state on northern Borneo, to describe an ideal relationship between two parties. In traditional worldviews, the ideal universe is balanced between the physical and spiritual worlds. This bal...