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Feasts of Honor
Ritual and Change in the Toraja Highlands
by Volkman, Toby Alice
Among the Toraja of highland Sulawesi, Indonesia, mortuary rituals are exotic spectacles. Bellowing water buffalo and squealing pigs for sacrifice, colourful 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.
Paperback, 234 pages,
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95