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Feasts of Honor: Ritual and Change in the Toraja Highlands - Couverture souple

Volkman, Toby Alice

 
9780252011832: Feasts of Honor: Ritual and Change in the Toraja Highlands
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 025201183X ISBN 13 : 9780252011832
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 1986

Synopsis

Among the Toraja of highland Sulawesi, Indonesia, mortuary rituals are great performances. Bellowing water buffalo and squealing pigs for sacrifice, colorful displays of ritual architecture, and formal processions of gift-bearing guests set the scene for complex dramas about status, human value, and ties to ancestors, followers, and kin. To Indonesians throughout the archipelago, Toraja rituals have come to represent the cultural identity of this well-known group. Feasts of Honor is an exploration of these rituals, their changing meanings, and the lively dialogues they have sparked within Toraja culture, from the Dutch Colonial period to the recent era of nationalism, tourism, and migration.

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Éditeur
University of Illinois Press
Date d'édition
1986
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
025201183X
ISBN 13 
9780252011832
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
234
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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