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Title: | Taking the Place of Sorrow: The Dynamics of Mortuary Rites among the Sa'dan Toraja | Authors: | Waterson, R. | Issue Date: | 1993 | Citation: | Waterson, R. (1993). Taking the Place of Sorrow: The Dynamics of Mortuary Rites among the Sa'dan Toraja. Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science 21 (2) : 73-96. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | Abstract: | Fieldwork data obtained 1978/79 are used to describe the death rituals of the Sa'dan Toraja of upland Sulawesi, in Indonesia, focusing on how they provide contexts for social relationships & economic arrangements among the living. Ways that analysis of Sa'dan death rituals can illuminate kinship structure & exchange practices are discussed, & it is shown that animal exchanges & sacrifices form the basis of a ceremonial credit & debit system, which in turn reinforces Torajan social identity. It is concluded that funerals & the rituals associated with them are quintessential expressions of Torajan sociability. W. Howard. | Source Title: | Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/130280 | ISSN: | 03038246 |
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