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Yang: the spirits and the old religion
Before the missions, every highland people lived among yang: spirits of the rice, the water, the mountain, the forest, the house, the jar and the gong. Most Dega today are Christian. This page describes the old religion as the ethnographers recorded it, how conversion changed it, and how the state now stages parts of it as heritage while punishi...
Jars, rice wine and the buffalo feast
In the old highland villages wealth was counted in buffaloes, gongs and jars — among the Bahnar, a 1966 handbook says, it was “usually measured” in exactly those three. The jars held the rice wine that every rite was drunk from, through long bamboo straws; the buffaloes were given to the spirits at the great feasts. Both were money, law and reli...
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