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Pengangun: Female Ritual Specialists for Malay Weddings in Brunei Darussalam

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, (2023), 143-167
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-6059-8_9
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This chapter is an ethnographic account of the spiritual function of female wedding attendants and ritual experts (pengangun) in the Brunei-Muara district, Brunei Darussalam. It details and examines the important role of women in these wedding rituals. The discussion then further considers the ways in which their role has changed in contemporary Brunei and the everyday challenges they face.

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Hakim, M. A. (2023). Pengangun: Female Ritual Specialists for Malay Weddings in Brunei Darussalam. In Asia in Transition (Vol. 20, pp. 143–167). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6059-8_9

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