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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jong, Edwin Bernardus Paulus de, 1970-

Series:

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 284.

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde ; v. 284

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toraja (Indonesian people)--Social life and customs.

Toraja (Indonesian people).

Ethnology--Indonesia--Tana Toraja.

Ethnology.

Tana Toraja (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.

Tana Toraja (Indonesia).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Place of Publication:

Brill 2013

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Edwin de Jong

Crisis and Ceremonies: An Intriguing Paradox / Edwin de Jong

Torajan Livelihoods: The Cultural Dynamics of Economic Life / Edwin de Jong

The Larger Torajan World: Migrant Networks and Organizations / Edwin de Jong

The Torajan Homeland / Edwin de Jong

Contesting Political Power / Edwin de Jong

Social Distinction and Ritual Performance / Edwin de Jong

Income and Expenditure Patterns in a Changing Economy / Edwin de Jong

Torajan Livelihood Styles / Edwin de Jong

Living with the Dead / Edwin de Jong

Appendix 1. Cluster Analysis / Edwin de Jong

Appendix 2. Variables in the Cluster analysis for Palipu’ and Kondo’ / Edwin de Jong

Appendix 3. Clusters of Households after Relocation Procedure / Edwin de Jong

Appendix 4. Cluster Analysis of Palipu’ and Kondo’ / Edwin de Jong

Glossary of Indonesian and Dutch Terms / Edwin de Jong

Bibliography / Edwin de Jong

Index / Edwin de Jong.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789004252479

9004252479

OCLC:

851079295

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004252479 DOI

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access