Buch, Englisch, Band 180
Reihe: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
Buch, Englisch, Band 180
Reihe: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
ISBN: 978-90-6718-132-7
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers
Like other groups in Southeast Asia, the Kayan have elaborate death rituals. The traditional Kayan religion (adat Dipuy) was characterized by ritual head-hunting, animal omens, and a multiplicity of taboos. In the 1940s, a prophet revealed a new religion (adat Bungan) in Central Borneo, with particular success in the Baluy area. In its initial stage, adat Bungan was a radical rejection of the old religion. However, in just a few years, a kind of counter-reformation occurred, led by aristocrats and priests, who reinstated most of the old rituals in a simplified and less onerous form.