Paths and rivers : Sa'dan Toraja society in transformation, Roxana Waterson, (electronic book)

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Paths and rivers : Sa'dan Toraja society in transformation, Roxana Waterson, (electronic book)

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Sa'dan Toraja society in transformation

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electronic book

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Roxana Waterson

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• Paths and rivers : Sa'dan Toraja society in transformation

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• Leiden, KITLV Press, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-498) and index

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Contents

• 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
• Introduction
• '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
• 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
• 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
• VI.
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• IX.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• XIII.
• 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
• Land, labour and inheritance.
• the Sa'dan highlands
• Shifting measures of value: buffaloes and money
• Mortuary ritual and the constitution of value
• Conclusion
• 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.
• 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'
• 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.

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1 online resource (xxxii + 510 pages).

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9789004253858

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Electronic reproduction.

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• (OCoLC)808385268
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