...Roxana Waterson The Thread of Life: Toraja Reflections on the Life Cycle . By Douglas W. Hollan and Jane C. Wellenkamp . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1996 . xii, 239 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997...

...Toby Alice Volkman Contentment and Suffering: Culture and Experience in Toraja . By Douglas Hollan and Jane Wellencamp . New York : Columbia University Press , 1993 , xiii, 276 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 1001...

...Terry Bigalke The Sa'dan-Toraja: A Study of Their Social Life and Religion. Vol. 1: Organization, Symbols and Beliefs . By Betty Nooy-Palm . The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff , 1979 . Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 87. xii, 338 pp. Glossary, Index...

...Eric Crystal Feasts of Honor: Ritual and Change in the Toraja Highlands . By Toby Alice Volkman . Champaign, Ill. : University of Illinois Free Press (Illinois Studies in Anthropology, no. 16), 1985 . xiv, 217 pp. Maps, Photographs, Endnotes, Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index...

...Rebecca S. Hall Contemporary Funeral Rituals of Sa'dan Toraja: From Aluk Todolo to “New” Religions . By Michaela Budiman . Prague : Karolinum Press , 2013 . 170 pp. ISBN: 9788024622286 (paper). Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China . Edited by Paul...

...Janet Hoskins Art as Politics: Re-Crafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia . By Kathleen Adams . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2006 . xi , 286 pp. $57.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007...

... be studied with profit if read in conjunction with other books on Burmese politics, thereby placing the subject in perspective. JOSEF SILVERSTEIN Rutgers University Feasts of Honor: Ritual and Change in the Toraja Highlands. By TOBY ALICE VOLKMAN. Champaign, 111.: University of Illinois Free Press (Illinois...

...-integrations. MATTHEW ISAAC COHEN Yale University The Thread of Life: Toraja Reflections on the Life Cycle. By DOUGLAS W. H O L L A N and J A N E C. W E L L E N K A M P . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996. xii, 239 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). A companion to their earlier Contentment...

... STUDIES depressed after a divorce, that children can make you lose your temper, or that grieving is usual after a death. Several more distinctive aspects of Toraja life receive illumination, however, particularly those to do with childhood and adolescence, courting and marital relationships. The strong...

..., our publications enhance dealers' ability to target the artifacts and cultural heritage of those to whom we owe so much. In a similar vein, Eric Crystal's moving chapter addresses how the opening of Tana Toraja (South Sulawesi) to tourism facilitated the work of international art thieves...

.... The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 is a collection of studies concerning Islam, Christianity, and "ethnic" religions. Chapters by David Hicks on Tetum, Eric Crystal and Shinji Yamashita on Sa'dan Toraja, and Patricia Henry on Old Javanese religion and literature are informative. John Bowen's...

... from Sulawesi of non-Muslim Toraja people. In the late nineteenth century the Bugis responded to the new coffee market by keeping Toraja slaves in Sulawesi and supplying them as agricultural laborers on the newly opened coffee plantations. And the Bugis triggered considerable change in the Toraja...

... Religion .” American Ethnologist 10 ( 4 ): 684 –96. Atkinson Jane Monnig . 1989 . The Art and Politics of Wana Shamanship . Berkeley : University of California Press . Bigalke Terance W. 1981 . “A Social History of Tana Toraja 1870–1965.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison...

..., and "ethnic" religions. Chapters by David Hicks on Tetum, Eric Crystal and Shinji Yamashita on Sa'dan Toraja, and Patricia Henry on Old Javanese religion and literature are informative. John Bowen's analysis of links between textual Sufism and Gayo ritual is brilliant. But none of these four studies...

... societies the belief in the spiritual potency of ancestors, saints, and heroes. The book consists of an introduction and thirteen chapters. While the first six chapters examine the "potent dead" in the context of Hindu and Christian cultures of Borneo, Sumba, Bali, Sulawesi (Tana Toraja), and Sumatra (Batak...

... the possibility of reconstitution. Hickey's volume is a fitting memorial to this lost world. It will remain as an essential source for anyone seeking to understand the complex ethnology of Indochina. A. TERRY RAMBO East-West Center Contentment and Suffering: Culture and Experience in Toraja. By DOUGLAS H O L L...

... suggest they do. ANSIL RAMSAY St. Lawrence University The Sa'dan-Toraja: A Study of Their Social Life and Religion. Vol. 1: Organization, Symbols and Beliefs. By BETTY NOOY-PALM. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 87. xii, 338 pp...

... age of Kali Yuga, may well have been a veiled allusion to the Suharto regime. Indeed, Toraja artists I worked with in the late 1990s used their traditional cultural artistic repertoire to surreptitiously critique Suharto's regime for its corruption (See Kathleen Adams, Art as Politics: Re-Crafting...

... of rushing through the Asia wing of an art museum before closing time, with only moments to glance at the object labels. Although entire chapters are devoted to the more celebrated Toraja and Batak arts, only six pages of text address the arts of Nusa Tenggara cultures, and the Philippines, Vietnam...

... they are not of famous historical figures but of ordinary men or women. Several of the individuals profiled in the volume can be described as marginal: Waterson's Fritz Basiang was a Toraja in Sulawesi; Janet Hoskins's Yosef Malo, a Kodi man from Sumba. Robert Knox Dentan's Arifin was a Semai in Malay Kuala Lumpur...