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The shamans ' celebration named Pualasakan happens in the village of Puyuma in Taiwan, on the third day of the third lunar month. Shamans are women who invoke spirits and communicate with them through trances and divinations. The Pualasakan celebration lasts eight days, where shamans consolidate links with auxiliary spirits

The Uut Danum from the High Melawi, located in the West Kalimantan, celebrate the Nyolat, the feast of the second funerals. The aim of this ceremony is to separate definitively the livings from the deads. The Nyolat is here celebrated in the village of Kepingoi. All its inhabitants and also invited people from next villages participate to the rituals, made of dancings, prayers and sacrifices.

Rituals and daily life of the Yami from Botel-Tobago, a little coral island located next to Taiwan. Fishing occupies a huge part in the economic and also social and ritual life. Activities are different in accordance with the three seasons of their lunar calendar.

Every year in December, in the village of Puyuma located in Taiwan, the Mangayaw ritual is celebrated. The ceremonial cycle asserts the socio-cosmical unity thanks to the participation of every inhabitant, and it concentrates the tidying rituals of the whole society.