From mantra to mataráa: Opacity and transparency in the language of Tobelo magic and medicine (Halmahera Island, Indonesia)☆
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This report is based on fieldwork carried out among the Tobelo of Halmahera Island during three field seasons. The first (October 1977–July 1979) was supported by a Fellowship for Doctoral Dissertation Research in Southeast Asia from the Social Science Research Council of New York, with an additional Research Grant from the Concilium of International and Area Studies (Yale University). A second field season (December 1980–November 1981) was supported by two grants from the National Geographic Society [1]. Additional fieldwork (January 1984 and October 1984–March 1985), part of which was spent among the Tobelo, was supported by grants from the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and from the Scholarly Studies Program of the Smithsonian Institution, under the joint sponsorship of Universitas Pattimura (Ambon, Indonesia) and the Indonesian Institute of Economic and Social Sciences (LEKNAS). This paper is revised from the presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Washington, D.C., December 1985).