Fish and Rice: The Position of Food and Religion for Ngaju Dayak Indonesia
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Rice, Fish, Ngaju Dayak, Indigenous, Food and Religion, Anthropology of IslamAbstract
Food plays an urgent tool in understanding religious life. In Many religious believers, food has a unique position and is a key instrument for attributing humans with religions such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism. However, the generalizability of much published research on the same issue has not deeply focus on intersection between food, religion, and indigenous experience especially on specific certain food such fish or rice. This paper explores how food provides the most fruitful resource for understanding religious and Ngaju Dayak indigenous Indonesia. Driven by ethnographic work, this paper argues that food is strongly influencing the establishment of the social configuration of the Ngaju Dayak community due to their natural character that lives along with the peasant mode of production and river producer. Moreover, food and religion Ngaju Dayak, particularly fish and rice position reclaiming sacred space, the liberation of faith, a symbol of affection, and filling the empty space to create strong motivation where religion legitimates action. Fish and rice also become a symbol of identity construction that depart from the same consciousness that rice and its trajectory share feelings of belongingness from how rice has been distributed and consumed mainly in the religiosity circle.
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