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The Uses of Balau Among the Melanau Community Especially in The Traditional Healing Rituals

Indigenous Knowledge is defined by UNESCO as the understandings, skills and philosophies that is formed by communities through a continuous interaction between the natural surroundings with its people. The traditions and customs of indigenous knowledge particularly traditional healing rituals within...

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Main Authors: Muhammad Faiz, Arshad, Ahmad Nizar, Yaakub, Mohamad Suhaidi, Salleh, Siti Zanariah, Ahmad Ishak
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Language:English
Published: Secholian Publication 2023
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H Social Sciences (General)
Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/41427/1/The%20Uses%20of%20Balau%20Among%20the%20Melanau%20Community.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/41427/
https://msocialsciences.com/index.php/mjssh/article/view/2103
http://doi.org/10.47405/mjssh.v8i2.2103
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spelling my.unimas.ir.414272023-03-01T08:21:12Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/41427/ The Uses of Balau Among the Melanau Community Especially in The Traditional Healing Rituals Muhammad Faiz, Arshad Ahmad Nizar, Yaakub Mohamad Suhaidi, Salleh Siti Zanariah, Ahmad Ishak H Social Sciences (General) Indigenous Knowledge is defined by UNESCO as the understandings, skills and philosophies that is formed by communities through a continuous interaction between the natural surroundings with its people. The traditions and customs of indigenous knowledge particularly traditional healing rituals within the Melanau community are being forgotten as they are less practice nowadays. Balau or scientifically known as mextroxylon sagu is a plant that is closely related to the traditional healing practice and the way of life of the Melanau community. The objectives of the paper are: to identify the uses of balau among the Melanau community and to analyse the types and practices of Melanau traditional healing rituals. This paper uses a qualitative approach which includes in- depth interview and observation to gather all the data. The findings of this paper are: there are many functions of balau in the daily use of the Melanau community as a source of food, income and healing; and there are several types of traditional healing rituals that already not practice by the Melanau community due to the availability of modern medicine and religious conversion. To preserve the practices of indigenous knowledge mainly traditional healing rituals are challenging due to the rapid modernization. Secholian Publication 2023-02-28 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/41427/1/The%20Uses%20of%20Balau%20Among%20the%20Melanau%20Community.pdf Muhammad Faiz, Arshad and Ahmad Nizar, Yaakub and Mohamad Suhaidi, Salleh and Siti Zanariah, Ahmad Ishak (2023) The Uses of Balau Among the Melanau Community Especially in The Traditional Healing Rituals. Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (MJSSH), 8 (2). pp. 1-15. ISSN 2504-8562 https://msocialsciences.com/index.php/mjssh/article/view/2103 http://doi.org/10.47405/mjssh.v8i2.2103
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topic H Social Sciences (General)
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Muhammad Faiz, Arshad
Ahmad Nizar, Yaakub
Mohamad Suhaidi, Salleh
Siti Zanariah, Ahmad Ishak
The Uses of Balau Among the Melanau Community Especially in The Traditional Healing Rituals
description Indigenous Knowledge is defined by UNESCO as the understandings, skills and philosophies that is formed by communities through a continuous interaction between the natural surroundings with its people. The traditions and customs of indigenous knowledge particularly traditional healing rituals within the Melanau community are being forgotten as they are less practice nowadays. Balau or scientifically known as mextroxylon sagu is a plant that is closely related to the traditional healing practice and the way of life of the Melanau community. The objectives of the paper are: to identify the uses of balau among the Melanau community and to analyse the types and practices of Melanau traditional healing rituals. This paper uses a qualitative approach which includes in- depth interview and observation to gather all the data. The findings of this paper are: there are many functions of balau in the daily use of the Melanau community as a source of food, income and healing; and there are several types of traditional healing rituals that already not practice by the Melanau community due to the availability of modern medicine and religious conversion. To preserve the practices of indigenous knowledge mainly traditional healing rituals are challenging due to the rapid modernization.
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author Muhammad Faiz, Arshad
Ahmad Nizar, Yaakub
Mohamad Suhaidi, Salleh
Siti Zanariah, Ahmad Ishak
author_facet Muhammad Faiz, Arshad
Ahmad Nizar, Yaakub
Mohamad Suhaidi, Salleh
Siti Zanariah, Ahmad Ishak
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title The Uses of Balau Among the Melanau Community Especially in The Traditional Healing Rituals
title_short The Uses of Balau Among the Melanau Community Especially in The Traditional Healing Rituals
title_full The Uses of Balau Among the Melanau Community Especially in The Traditional Healing Rituals
title_fullStr The Uses of Balau Among the Melanau Community Especially in The Traditional Healing Rituals
title_full_unstemmed The Uses of Balau Among the Melanau Community Especially in The Traditional Healing Rituals
title_sort uses of balau among the melanau community especially in the traditional healing rituals
publisher Secholian Publication
publishDate 2023
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/41427/1/The%20Uses%20of%20Balau%20Among%20the%20Melanau%20Community.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/41427/
https://msocialsciences.com/index.php/mjssh/article/view/2103
http://doi.org/10.47405/mjssh.v8i2.2103
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