Format:
1 online resource (552 pages)
ISBN:
9789004253858
Series Statement:
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde v.253
Content:
Intro -- PATHS AND RIVERS -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A note on orthography -- Introduction -- A return journey -- Life in Buttang -- PART ONE: The uses of the past -- Chapter I: Toraja and their neighbours Historical perspectives -- On modes of remembering the past -- 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 -- Chapter II: The view from the mountains -- The story of Laki Padada -- Heroes, tricksters, and relations with lowland kingdoms -- Chapter III: The Ancestors of the Same Dream -- 'Holding back the mountain of Bone': the seventeenth century -- The Ancestors of the Same Dream in oral memory -- Chapter IV: A time of chaos -- The 1890s: the 'Time of the Sidenreng people' -- The nineteenth century in local memory -- The commoditization of slavery -- Chapter V: The awakening of the oath Memory, identity and historical action -- Chapter VI: 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 -- Chapter VII: The mythical origins of humans and their houses -- 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter IX: Trunk and branch.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789067183079
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789067183079
Language:
English
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