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Local integration and coastal connections in interior Kalimantan: the case of the nalin taun ritual among the Bentian.
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The nalin taun is a community ritual which is practised by the Luangan Dayaks--the Bentian, Benuaq and Tunjung--of the province of East Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo. (1) According to the information of older people in the Bentian villages where I did fieldwork, (2) the ritual originated among the Benuaq of the upper Bongan river, a tributary of the Mahakam, where it was first performed to 'treat' (nalin) incest (sumbang), which had incited a solar eclipse, a highly inauspicious sign of impending misfortune resulting from disturbed relations between people on earth and the ...
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