Manipulating Ethnic Tradition: The Funeral Ceremony, Tourism, and Television among the Toraja of Sulawesi | Zendy

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Manipulating Ethnic Tradition: The Funeral Ceremony, Tourism, and Television among the Toraja of Sulawesi

Author(s) -

Shinji Yamashita

Publication year - 1994

Publication title -

indonesia

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.276

H-Index - 9

eISSN - 2164-8654

pISSN - 0019-7289

DOI - 10.2307/3351103

Subject(s) - ceremony , ethnic group , tourism , ethnology , geography , advertising , art , anthropology , history , sociology , archaeology , business

Focusing on a single funeral ceremony among the Toraja of Sulawesi, this article examines Toraja ethnic culture within broader-not only local but also national and globalsocioeconomic contexts, with special reference to the development of tourism in the region, and to Japanese television which filmed the funeral. In so doing, the paper attempts to depict the dynamic way in which an ethnic culture is "staged" in the contemporary "postmodem" setting.1

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