the practice of everyday life of a South Sulawesi highland community in Indonesia Jong, Edwin Bernardus Paulus de 1970- creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. ne Leiden Brill 2013 monographic eng

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xiv, 332 p. : ill. (some col.), maps. "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. by Edwin de Jong. Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. a-io--- Toraja (Indonesian people) Social life and customs Ethnology Indonesia Tana Toraja Tana Toraja (Indonesia) Social life and customs DS632.T7 J66 2013eb 959.8/47 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10720129 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10720129 CaPaEBR 130319 ebr10720129