Feasts of Honor

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Rituals and Change in the Toraja Highlands Toby Alice Volkman 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...

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Rituals and Change in the Toraja Highlands

Toby Alice Volkman

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, and migration. The book tells of the early 1900s murder of Dutch Reformed Christian missionary Van de Loosdrecht who was sent by the Reformed Alliance (GB) to the Island of Celebes, as it was then called.

Paperback, 234 pages, illustrated, maps, notes, bibliography, index, glossary, a general Dutch Heritage title