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Feasts of Honor
Toby Alice Volkman
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Description for Feasts of Honor
Hardback. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 384.
Among the Toraja of highland Sulawesi, Indonesia, mortuary rituals are great performances. Bellowing water buffalo and squealing pigs for sacrifice, colorful displays of ritual architecture, and formal processions of gift-bearing guests set the scene for complex dramas about status, human value, and ties to ancestors, followers, and kin. To Indonesians throughout the archipelago, Toraja rituals have come to represent the cultural identity of this well-known group. Feasts of Honor is an exploration of these rituals, their changing meanings, and the lively dialogues they have sparked within Toraja culture, from the Dutch Colonial period to the recent era of nationalism, tourism, ... Read more
Among the Toraja of highland Sulawesi, Indonesia, mortuary rituals are great performances. Bellowing water buffalo and squealing pigs for sacrifice, colorful displays of ritual architecture, and formal processions of gift-bearing guests set the scene for complex dramas about status, human value, and ties to ancestors, followers, and kin. To Indonesians throughout the archipelago, Toraja rituals have come to represent the cultural identity of this well-known group. Feasts of Honor is an exploration of these rituals, their changing meanings, and the lively dialogues they have sparked within Toraja culture, from the Dutch Colonial period to the recent era of nationalism, tourism, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252011832
SKU
V9780252011832
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