ISBN:
0520200411
,
0520203615
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
DDC:
394
Keywords:
Rites and ceremonies Indonesia
;
Bambang (Sulawesi Selatan)
;
Violence Social aspects
;
Indonesia
;
Bambang (Sulawesi Selatan)
;
Head hunters Indonesia
;
Bambang (Sulawesi Selatan)
;
Discourse analysis, Narrative Indonesia
;
Bambang (Sulawesi Selatan)
;
Oral tradition Indonesia
;
Bambang (Sulawesi Selatan)
;
Bambang (Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia) Social life and customs
;
Sulawesi Selatan (Indonesia) Social life and customs
;
Celebes
;
Kopfjäger
;
Gewalt
;
Ritual
;
Gesang
;
Ethnosoziologie
Abstract:
This book has to do with the language and cultural politics of ritual violence in a minority religious community in highland Sulawesi, Indonesia. More particularly, it is about headhunting ceremonies and their stubborn presence in the contemporary social life of a marginal, upland enclave, an enclave that has suffered the wounds of social and cultural dislocation just by staying in place. No longer so remotely situated from the centers of state and post-colonial order, this minority community has had to look for social terrain in which its legitimacy and autonomy can be asserted. In their search, they use what is at hand as well as that which has been brought from over the horizon.
Note:
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program
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