Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja

2013/06/06 by E.B.P. de Jong · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Asian Studies and History #Livelihood #Realm #Politics #Everyday life #Ethnography #Sociology #Perspective (graphical) #Creativity #Social science #Political science #Geography #Anthropology #Art #Law

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Abstract

Making a Living between Crisis and Ceremonies offers an account on the practice of everyday life of the Torajan people both in the highlands of Tana Toraja (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) and elsewhere (Makassar, Jakarta, Maleisië).; Readership: All concerned with the fields of livelihoods, migration, transnationalism, decentralization, economic crisis, and anyone interested in an ethnography of a Southeast Asian highland community: the Toraja.

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• Torajan people [wikipedia]

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