Paths and rivers : : Sa'dan Toraja society in transformation / / Roxana Waterson.
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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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde,
253 Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 253. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (552 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.