• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Maya (Image) in Indigenous Riau World-view: A Forgotten Concept of Malayan Animist Thought and Ritual Practice
  • Beteiligte: Porath, Nathan
  • Erschienen: Project MUSE, 2015
  • Erschienen in: Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 88 (2015) 2, Seite 3-23
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1353/ras.2015.0022
  • ISSN: 2180-4338
  • Schlagwörter: General Medicine
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  • Beschreibung: The early literature on Malay animism and magic includes a passing reference to a concept called maya . This reference is hardly noticeable in the literature, and when Kirk Endicott wrote his Malay Magic , he omitted the word altogether. In this article the author uses ethnographic material from the Malayan-speaking Orang Sakai of Riau to examine the concept of maya (image) as it relates to a ‘lifeless soul’ inherent in material objects, giving physical objects vitality of form, appearance and use.