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Benuaq Part II: Becoming a Shaman, with Richard Payne


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In Part II of this conversation, Richard goes into about the specifics of becoming a shaman. He describes the epistemology of the Benuaq people, that is, their way of knowing things about the world. He also discusses the pressures that this traditional worldview faces as Indonesia begins to move its capital from Jakarta to Kalimantan, just a hundred miles downriver from where the Benuaq live.
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Said & DoneBy Columbia University Language Resource Center