Making a living between crises and ceremonies in Tana Toraja : the practice of everyday life of a South Sulawesi highland community in Indonesia /

Making a living between crises and ceremonies in Tana Toraja : the practice of everyday life of a South Sulawesi highland community in Indonesia /

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Author / Creator:Jong, Edwin Bernardus Paulus de, 1970- author.
Imprint:Leiden : Brill, 2013.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 332 pages).
Language:English
Series:Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde ; v. 284
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; v. 284.
Subject:
Ethnology -- Indonesia -- Tana Toraja.
Toraja (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs.
Ethnology.
Manners and customs.
Toraja (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs.
Tana Toraja (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs.
Indonesia -- Tana Toraja.
Electronic book.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11397087
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ISBN:9789004252479
9004252479
9789004252400
9004252401
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"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 livelihoods, Edwin de Jong develops an approach that goes beyond existing economically biased perspectives on livelihoods by including both the cultural and the economic realm, positioned in the socio-political world with a transnational perspective, placed against a historical background, while not losing sight of diversity and individual creativity. It also advances the ethnography of Tana Toraja and the comparative study between numerous similar societies"--
Other form:Print version: Making a living between crises and ceremonies in Tana Toraja Leiden : Brill, 2013. 9789004252400
Standard no.:10.1163/9789004252479

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