Art as Politics: Re-Crafting Identities, Tourism, and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia
(Part of the Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory Series)
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Art as Politics explores the intersection of art, identity politics, and tourism in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Based on long-term ethnographic research from the 1980s to the present, the book offers a nuanced portrayal of the Sa'dan Toraja, a predominantly Christian minority group in the world's most populous Muslim country. Celebrated in anthropological and tourism literatures for their spectacular traditional houses, sculpted effigies of the dead,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0824830725
ISBN13:9780824830724
Release Date:August 2006
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"
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