Toraja
Misadventures of a Social Anthropologist in Sulawesi, Indonesia
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2013
248 pages
978-981-4423-47-2 (ISBN)
Description
In 1985, Dr. Nigel Barley, senior anthropologist at The British Museum, set off for the relatively unknown Indonesian island of Sulawesi in search of the Toraja, a people whose culture includes headhunting, transvestite priests and the massacre of buffalo. In witty and finely crafted prose, Barley offers fascinating insight into the people of Sulawesi and he recounts the tale of the four Torajan woodcarvers he invites back to London to construct an Indonesian rice barn in The British Museum. Previously published as "Not a Hazardous Sport".
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- New Departures
- Tales of Two Cities
- Sailor Ways
- The Ethnographic Frontier
- Horse-trading
- This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us
- Of Rice and Men
- Mountain Barnstormers
- Conjugal Rites
- Let Me Call You . Pong
- The Return Match
- Illustrations
- About the Author
- In the Footsteps of Stamford Raffles
- Rogue Raider
- Island of Demons
- The Devil's Garden
- Copyright
