Paths and rivers : Sa'dan Toraja society in transformation

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, Ind...

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Autor principal: Waterson, Roxana (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : KITLV Press 2009.
Colección:Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 253
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 253.
Materias:
Toraja (Indonesian people) > Rites and ceremonies.
Toraja (Indonesian people) > Social life and customs.
Ethnology > Indonesia > Tana Toraja.
Social evolution.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419957006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminary Material / Roxana Waterson
  • Chapter I: Toraja and their neighbours: Historical perspectives / Roxana Waterson
  • Chapter II: The view from the mountains / Roxana Waterson
  • Chapter III: The Ancestors of the Same Dream / Roxana Waterson
  • Chapter IV: A time of chaos / Roxana Waterson
  • Chapter V: The awakening of the oath: Memory, identity and historical action / Roxana Waterson
  • Chapter VI: The colonial encounter and social transformation / Roxana Waterson
  • Chapter VII: The mythical origins of humans and their houses / Roxana Waterson
  • Chapter VIII: A system of rank under strain / Roxana Waterson
  • Chapter IX: Trunk and branch / Roxana Waterson
  • Chapter X: Blood and bone / Roxana Waterson
  • Chapter XI: Women and men / Roxana Waterson
  • Chapter XII: Planting a hearth / Roxana Waterson
  • Chapter XIII: Land, labour and inheritance / Roxana Waterson
  • Chapter XIV: The structure of Aluk To Dolo / Roxana Waterson
  • Chapter XV: The enhancement of fertility / Roxana Waterson
  • Chapter XVI: A changing religious landscape / Roxana Waterson
  • Chapter XVII: The making of ancestors / Roxana Waterson
  • Chapter XVIII: Dynamics of the ceremonial economy / Roxana Waterson
  • Conclusion / Roxana Waterson
  • Appendices / Roxana Waterson
  • Glossary / Roxana Waterson
  • Bibliography / Roxana Waterson
  • Index / Roxana Waterson.

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