Making a living between crises and ceremonies in Tana Toraja the practice of everyday life of a South Sulawesi highland community in Indonesia
"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 expen...
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Leiden
Brill
2013, 2013
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| Series: | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Decentralization and Local Autonomy: The Comeback of Traditional adat LeadersCentralization and Standardization: adat Depoliticized; Conclusions; 5. Contesting Political Power; Decentralization and Regional Autonomy in Indonesia: The Revival of adat; Return to the lembang Movement; Failure of the lembang Movement; The lembang Revised and Re-divided; A 'Greater' or a Fragmented Toraja?; Conclusions; 6. Social Distinction and Ritual Performance173; Torajan Order and Status; The Making and Re-Making of a tongkonan; Siri' Makes the World go Round; Tournaments of Value
- Livelihoods and Social Space: NetworksSocial Relationships and Networks; Networks of Kin; Beyond Kinship: House Societies; Moving beyond Local Boundaries; 'A Sense of Place'; A Conception of Transnationalism; Where Do We Go from Here?; 3. The Larger Torajan World: Migrant Networks and Organizations; Torajans on the Move; Before merantau; After merantau; The Torajan Migrant World after 2000; Different Settings, Same Outcome: Two Torajan Diasporas Compared; Migrant Networks and Organizations; (Trans)migrants in the City: The Case of Makassar; Makassar: Microcosm of the Eastern Seas
- Arriving in the City and Finding ShelterLiving and Working in Makassar; Social Relations and Networks; Communication between the Urban Migrants and the Homeland; The Homecoming Myth: Metaphor or Reality?; Conclusions; 4. The Torajan Homeland; Early Sa'dan Toraja Society: Disunity and Diversity; A Society of Houses; Tongkonan Federations and Constellations; The Making of a Colonial Toraja; Torajan Politics under the New Republic; The Emergency of Tana Toraja; Transformation of the Torajan Political System: The Feudal Authority Replaced
- Tongkonan, Funerals and ChristianityConclusions; 7. Income and Expenditure Patterns in a Changing Economy; Economic Development in Tana Toraja: Booms and Busts; Early Economy of the Highlands; The Torajan Economy under Colonial Rule; Economic Transition: Steady Growth and Commercialization; Economic Fluctuations in Tana Toraja 1997-2003; Village Economies in the Early Twenty-First Century; Gross Village Cash Incomes; Local Household Income Activities; Spreading Activities beyond the Village Borders; Livelihood Sources of Various Wealth Groups in Palipu' and Kondo'; Expenditure Patterns
- Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja; Copyright; Content; List of Maps, Tables, Figures and Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. Crisis and Ceremonies: An Intriguing Paradox; Makassar: A Transit City; Tana Toraja: A Social Labyrinth; Crisis and Ceremonies: An Intriguing Paradox; Construing Everyday Life; Small Places and Large Issues; Outline of This Study; 2. Torajan Livelihoods: The Cultural Dynamics of Economic Life; Reconceptualizing Livelihoods; Livelihood Styles: Beyond Agency and Social Structure; Livelihood Style Defined