The Thread of Life : : Toraja Reflections on the Life Cycle / / Jane C. Wellenkamp, Douglas W. Hollan.

"This is an enjoyably readable and generally illuminating look at the more intimate side of Toraja life and relationships. [It is] an innovative approach to ethnography, valuable in its attempt to deal with aspects of life that are often passed over in more conventional ethnographic writing.&qu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1996]
©1996
Year of Publication:1996
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • 30 Chapter 2. Birth, Infancy, and Early Childhood
  • Chapter 3. Later Childhood and Adolescence
  • Chapter 4. Marriage and Parenting
  • Chapter 5. Adulthood, Aging, and Death
  • Chapter 6. The Cycle of Life in Toraja
  • Appendix 1: Checklist of Open Interview Topics
  • Appendix 2: Respondents
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
  • INDEX
  • About the Authors