Research Catalog

Title

Making a living between crises and ceremonies in Tana Toraja : the practice of everyday life of a South Sulawesi highland community in Indonesia / by Edwin de Jong.

Author

Jong, Edwin Bernardus Paulus de, 1970-

Publication

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

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Description

xiv, 332 pages : color illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

"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. To understand the paradoxes and complexities of Torajan livelihoods, Edwin de Jong develops an approach that goes beyond existing economically biased perspectives on livelihoods by including both the cultural and the economic realm, positioned in the socio-political world with a transnational perspective, placed against a historical background, while not losing sight of diversity and individual creativity. It also advances the ethnography of Tana Toraja and the comparative study between numerous similar societies"--

Series Statement

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde ; 284

Uniform Title

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 284.

Subject

• Toraja (Indonesian people) > Social life and customs
• Ethnology > Indonesia > Tana Toraja
• Ethnology
• Manners and customs
• Alltag
• Ritual
• Ahnenkult
• Christentum
• Sozioökonomischer Wandel
• Soziokultureller Wandel
• Toradja
• Tana Toraja (Indonesia) > Social life and customs
• Indonesia > Tana Toraja

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Crisis and ceremonies : an Intriguing Paradox -- Makassar : a transit city -- Tana Toraja : a social Labyrinth -- Crisis and ceremonies : an intriguing paradox -- Construing everyday life -- Small places and large issues -- Outline of this study -- Torajan Livelihoods : the cultural dynamics of economic life -- Reconceptualizing livelihoods -- Livelihood styles : beyond agency and social structure -- Livelihood style defined -- Livelihoods and social space : networks, Kinship and houses -- Social relationships and networks -- Networks of Kin -- Beyond Kinship : House Societies -- Moving beyond local boundaries -- 'A sense of place' -- A conception of transnationalism -- Where do we go from here? -- The larger Torajan world : migrant networks and organizations -- Torajans on the move -- Before merantau -- After merantau -- The Torajan migrant world after 2000 -- Different settings, same outcome : two Torajan diasporas compared -- Migrant networks and organizations -- (Trans)migrants in the city : the case of Makassar -- Makassar : Microcosm of the eastern seas -- Arriving in the city and finding shelter -- Living and working in Makassar -- Social relations and networks -- Communication between the urban migrants and the homeland -- The homecoming myth : metaphor or reality? -- Conclusions -- The Torajan homeland -- Early Sa'dan Toraja society : disunity and diversity -- A society of houses -- Tongkonan federations and constellations -- The making of a colonial Toraja -- Torajan politics under the New Republic -- The emergency of Tana Toraja -- Transformation of the Torajan political system : the Feudal authority replaced -- Decentralization and local autonomy : the comeback of traditional adat leaders -- Centralization and standardization : adat depoliticized -- Conclusions -- Contesting political power -- Decentralization and regional autonomy in Indonesia : the revival of adat -- Return to the lembang Movement -- Failure of the lembang movement -- The lembang revised and re-divided -- A 'Greater' or a Fragmented Toraja? -- Conclusions -- Social distinction and ritual performance -- Torajan order and status -- The making and re-making of a tongkonan -- Siri' makes the world go round -- Tournaments of value -- Tongkonan, Funerals and Christianity -- Conclusions -- Income and expenditure pattems in a changing economy -- Economic development in Tana Toraja : booms and busts -- Early economy of the highlands -- The Torajan economy under colonial rule -- Economic transition : steady growth and commercialization -- Economic fluctuations in Tana Toraja 1997-2003 -- Village economies in the early twenty-first century -- Gross village cash incomes -- Local household income activities -- Spreading activities beyond the village borders -- Livelihood sources of various wealth groups in Palipu' and Kondo' -- Expenditure patterns -- The economic crisis as experienced in the two villages -- Palipu' during the economic crisis : crisis or godsend? -- Kondo' during the economic crisis : flourishing ceremonies -- Concluding remarks -- Torajan livelihood styles -- Identifying livelihood styles in Palipu' and Kondo' -- Livelihood styles in Palipu' -- Translocals : the household of Rannu and Lucia Lomo' -- Entrepreneurs : the household of Ne'Angke' -- Established locals : the household of Ne'Kedeng -- Outcasts : the case of Sande's household -- Livelihood styles in Kondo' -- Locals : Pong Fitri's household -- Gengsi seekers : Pong Pading's household -- Siri' protectors : the household of Ne'Rombe -- Transnationais : the household of Marthen Bai -- Some concluding remarks on livelihood styles in Tana Toraja -- Living with the dead -- Moving toward a global Tongkonan -- The homeland : social space and place -- A layered society -- Torajan livelihood styles -- Life and death : a double Helix -- Appendix 1 : Cluster analysis -- Appendix 2 : Variables in the Cluster analysis for Palipu' and Kondo' -- Appendix 3 : Clusters of Households after relocation procedure -- Appendix 4 : Cluster analysis of Palipu' and Kondo' -- Glossary of Indonesian and Dutch Terms -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 16-3651

ISBN

• 9789004252400
• 9004252401
• 9789004252479 (canceled/invalid)
• 9004252479 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013011302

OCLC

833147230

Author

Jong, Edwin Bernardus Paulus de, 1970- author.

Title

Making a living between crises and ceremonies in Tana Toraja : the practice of everyday life of a South Sulawesi highland community in Indonesia / by Edwin de Jong.

Publisher

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde ; 284

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 284.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-3651