ANTA02H3 Lecture 3: week 3 reading.docx
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Bimanese share land with dou donggo, speak the same language, followers of islam and a majority on. Sumbawa island, belonged to the lower lands usually wet and dry climates, drought took place both groups used own methods of prayers to pray for rain to grow crops. Bimanese prayed to allah, fasted in the grand mosque. Donggo cleaned mouth of a mountain spring and the debris, then offered rice wine, rice, betel, tobacco and sacrifice a chicken, indicating the killing of spirits blocking water flow/rain. A few days later there was eventually rainfall, more than unusual. Bimanese had a semi-feudal society where the sultan owned the land and everyone in it. Donggo society is more egalitarian, kin and neighbors are help and problems in ones society. Emile durkheim people are socially categorized by their religion, impacting the social aspect of life.
