Abstract
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely of disease or infirmity. (WHO, 1948) When everyone falls sick, they are cured by western medicine and folk medicine. Only when he is healthy, his mind will be in a state of happiness. Therefore, health is an essential factor for a man to live. Dawei ethnic group still uses their traditional folk medicine. There is a belief in spirit for curing. Then, there are some traditions that other ethnic groups do not perform in funerary rite. The aim of the research is to reveal how they maintain their traditional custom in illness, cure, death and burial. The objectives of the research are to explore how they cure with what folk medicines and how they perform funeral rites handed down one generation after another. Functional theory was used to write the paper. In this research method as qualitative research method, individual depth interview, focus group discussion and key informant interview were used.
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