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Paths and rivers : Sa'dan Toraja society in transformation /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Software eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden
KITLV Press
2009.
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| Colección: | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ;
253. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- A return journey
- Life in Buttang
- Part one: The uses of the past. I. Toraja and their neighbours; Historical perspectives
- II. The view from the mountains
- III. The ancestors of the same dream
- IV. A time of chaos
- V. The awakening of the oath; memory, identity and historical action
- VI. The colonial encounter and social transformation
- Part two: A house society. VII. The mythical origins of humans and their houses
- VIII. A system of rank under strain
- IX. Trunk and branch
- X. Blood and bone
- Part three: Village life. XI. Women and men
- XII. Planting a hearth
- XIII. Land, labour and inheritance
- Part four: Smoke of the rising and the setting sun. XIV. The structure of Aluk To Dolo
- XV. The enhancement of fertility
- XVI. A changing religious landscape
- XVII. The making of ancestors
- XVIII. Dynamics of the ceremonial economy
- Conclusion.
- Introduction
- A return journey
- Life in Buttang
- Part One: The uses of the past. I. Toraja and their neighbours; Historical perspectives
- On modes of remembering the past
- Toraja in the Austronesian world
- Naming the Toraja
- Intimacies and enmities: Toraja relations with the Bugis
- Marginality and resistance: political relations between highlands and lowlands
- II. The view from the mountains. The story of Laki Padada
- Heroes, tricksters, and relations with lowland kingdoms
- III. The Ancestors of the Same Dream
- 'Holding back the mountain of Bone': the seventeenth century
- The Ancestors of the Same Dream in oral memory
- IV. A time of chaos. The 1890s: the 'Time of the Sidenreng people'
- The nineteenth century in local memory
- The commoditization of slavery
- V. The awakening of the oath; Memory, identity and historical action.
- VI. The colonial encounter and social transformation
- Dutch takeover and its initial impacts
- The Dutch Reformed Church Mission
- The modernizing process and the development of 'Toraja' identity
- Japanese Occupation and the struggle for independence
- Part Two: A house society. VII. The mythical origins of humans and their houses. Types of mythical narrative
- Laughter from the stone: cosmology and creation
- The house of Puang Matua
- The first carpenters
- The first humans on earth
- Sky and water meet on earth: the to manurun di langi'
- The to manurun in Malimbong
- Questions of precedence and links with the past
- VIII. A system of rank under strain. On the mythical origins of slavery
- Regional variations in the ranking system
- Changing relationships between nobles and their dependents.
- IX. Trunk and branch. Houses, land and graves
- Metaphors of origin: the trunk and the tip
- The 'life' of the house
- The house and the rapu
- Hopes and dreams
- X. Blood and bone. The inheritance of kinship substance
- The centrality of siblingship in the conceptualization of kin relations
- Fractions of kinship substance
- From siblings to affines, and back again
- Part Three: Village life. XI. Women and men
- On multiplicity and ambiguity in gender analysis
- Gender as an unmarked category in Tana Toraja
- Pairing and balance in marital relationships
- Mobility and stability: elements of difference in the characterisation of gender
- XII. Planting a hearth. Courtship and engagement
- The marriage ritual
- Marriage and status: intermarriage between ranks
- Modernity and the changing style of weddings.
- XIII. Land, labour and inheritance. Sale, pawning and sharecropping of land
- Principles of inheritance
- Lotong's story
- Agricultural labour and the formation of communal work groups
- Part Four: Smoke of the rising and the setting sun. XIV. The structure of Aluk To Dolo. Rites of the East and the West
- Ancestors and deities in the landscape
- Intimacy with the ancestors
- XV. The enhancement of fertility. The ritual rhythm of the agricultural cycle
- The ma'bua', climactic Rite of the East
- XVI. A changing religious landscape. Local religions in the Indonesian national context
- Conversion, modernity and identity
- XVII. The making of ancestors. The journey to the afterlife
- The organization of a funeral
- XVIII. Dynamics of the ceremonial economy. Economic domains and their intersections in
- the Sa'dan highlands
- Shifting measures of value: buffaloes and money
- Mortuary ritual and the constitution of value
- Conclusion.
- Appendices
- A. Passonde-sonde, Prayer recited after the ritual of ma'tetean bori', (interpretation of dreams) at the conclusion of the house ceremony
- B. Chant for the ma'bugi' ritual
- C. Verses of two ma'badong chants for the deceased (ossoran badong)
- D. Ranked levels of the funeral ceremony
- E Table of exchange values and inflation over the twentieth century
- F. Genealogies
- 1. Tato' Dena''s genealogy of Tangdilino' and his numerous children, who spread out from Banua Puan to found new houses in different parts of Toraja.
- 2. Tato' Dena''s genealogy of Tamboro Langi', a widely recognized to manurun ancestor. He and his wife Sanda Bilik founded their tongkonan on Mount Ullin in Saluputti. Their great-grandchild Laki Padada went in search of eternal life and married a princess of Gowa; their three sons ruled in Luwu', Toraja (Sangalla') and Gowa respectively. This story is the most important of those linking Toraja to the lowland kingdoms.
- 3. Genealogies of tongkonan Buttang, Pasang and Pokko' in Malimbong, showing the mythical ancestors Pa'doran and Gonggang Sado'ko'.