Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja (Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land, Book 284) by Edwin de Jong
English | 2013 | ISBN: 9004252401 | ISBN-13: 9789004252400 | 332 pages | PDF | 7 MB
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 expenditures, were still organized each year.