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Paths and rivers ; Sa’dan Toraja society in transformation
Fieldwork extending over a thirty-year period provided materials for this book. Paths and Rivers offers an unusually deep and broad picture of the Sa’dan Toraja as a society in dynamic transition over the course of the past century. The Toraja inhabit the mountainous highlands of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and are well known for their dramatic architecture, their unusual cliff burials, and th…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789067183079
- Collation
- xxxii, 510 p.
- Series Title
- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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- 305.89922 WAT p
Making a living between crises and ceremonies in Tana Toraja : the practice o…
The practice of everyday life in Tana Toraja (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) is structured by a series of public events, of which funerals are the most important. Even after Indonesia was hit by an economic crisis in the late 1990s, thousands of extravagant funeral ceremonies, requiring huge expenditures, were still organized each year. To understand the paradoxes and complexities of Torajan liveli…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789004252479
- Collation
- XIV, 332 p.
- Series Title
- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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- 959.847 DEJ m
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