ABSTRACT This article considers the millenarian disposition among the Buton of North Seram sub-district, Maluku. Particular focus is paid to how the Buton interpret their inclusion in indigenous cosmologies, given their current precarious and humiliating existence. In Maluku, the Buton have long been regarded as lower-class people, outsiders who are excluded from local cultural schematics and are both socially and legally vulnerable. Instead of simply seeing their aspiration for a new and perfect social order as something springing from their desire to end their predicament, and rather than viewing their belief as something invented for this end, I suggest that the incongruent communication of cosmological tropes is important in the formation of their millenarian framework. The Buton understand the presence of their mythical representations in the indigenous cosmologies as evidence of the original order, which inspires them to believe that the Seram people are concealing the truth and that its revelation will upturn the current oppressive order. For the often referred Seram communities, however, the inclusion of Buton mythical representations is a way of assimilating a powerful, dangerous stranger and perpetuating the wholeness of their cosmology. The emphasis on the productivity of the misunderstanding rather than the creative act of expanding symbolic frameworks helps explain the peculiar relationality which grounds Buton millenarianism.

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摘要 本文考察了马鲁古北塞兰分区布顿人的千禧一代性格。鉴于他们目前岌岌可危和屈辱的存在，特别关注布顿如何解释他们被纳入本土宇宙学。在马鲁古，布顿人长期以来一直被视为下层阶级，被排除在当地文化图解之外的外来者，在社会和法律上都处于弱势。与其简单地将他们对新的、完美的社会秩序的渴望视为源于他们结束困境的愿望，而不是将他们的信仰视为为此目的而发明的东西，我建议宇宙学比喻的不一致交流在形成他们的千禧年框架。布顿人将他们在土著宇宙学中的神话表现理解为原始秩序的证据，这激发他们相信塞拉姆人正在隐瞒真相，而真相的揭露将颠覆当前的压迫秩序。然而，对于经常被提及的塞拉姆社区来说，包含布顿的神话形象是一种吸收强大而危险的陌生人并使他们的宇宙学整体永存的方式。强调误解的生产力而不是扩展符号框架的创造性行为有助于解释布顿千禧年主义的特殊关系。这激发他们相信塞拉姆人正在隐瞒真相，而真相的揭露将颠覆当前的压迫秩序。然而，对于经常被提及的塞拉姆社区来说，包含布顿的神话形象是一种吸收强大而危险的陌生人并使他们的宇宙学整体永存的方式。强调误解的生产力而不是扩展符号框架的创造性行为有助于解释布顿千禧年主义的特殊关系。这激发他们相信塞拉姆人正在隐瞒真相，而真相的揭露将颠覆当前的压迫秩序。然而，对于经常被提及的塞拉姆社区来说，包含布顿的神话形象是一种吸收强大而危险的陌生人并使他们的宇宙学整体永存的方式。强调误解的生产力而不是扩展符号框架的创造性行为有助于解释布顿千禧年主义的特殊关系。