Jong, Edwin Bernardus Paulus de, 1970-
Making a living between crises and ceremonies in Tana Toraja the practice of everyday life of a South Sulawesi highland community in Indonesia / [electronic resource] : by Edwin de Jong. - Leiden : Brill, 2013. - xiv, 332 p. : ill. (some col.), maps. - Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde, v. 284 1572-1892 ; . - Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 284. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"--Provided by publisher.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Toraja (Indonesian people)--Social life and customs.
Ethnology--Indonesia--Tana Toraja.
Tana Toraja (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
DS632.T7 / J66 2013eb
959.8/47
Making a living between crises and ceremonies in Tana Toraja the practice of everyday life of a South Sulawesi highland community in Indonesia / [electronic resource] : by Edwin de Jong. - Leiden : Brill, 2013. - xiv, 332 p. : ill. (some col.), maps. - Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde, v. 284 1572-1892 ; . - Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 284. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"--Provided by publisher.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Toraja (Indonesian people)--Social life and customs.
Ethnology--Indonesia--Tana Toraja.
Tana Toraja (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
DS632.T7 / J66 2013eb
959.8/47