On the Confrontation between Perennial Models in 19th Century Halmahera (Indonesia) (original) (raw)

transcript Verlag eBooks, 2015

Abstract

Prognostication-the culturally specific praxis of foretelling future events-requires the presence of two types of representations in the cultural repertoire of the society in question. 1 One type of representation concerns the distinction, held to be self-evident by the society's members, between ›the past‹, ›the present‹ and ›the future‹. Models of chronological processes upheld in the society in question therefore reflect such distinctions in the syntactic categories of its language in-1 The research reported here is part of the French-German research project »Local Traditions and World Religions: The Appropriation of ›Religion‹ in Southeast Asia and Beyond«, funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. I gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the latter, and thank Prof. Jarich Oosten, Prof. Christian Postert and Dr. Roy Jordaan for their perceptive comments.

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