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Toraja: Misadventures of a Social Anthropologist in Sulawesi, Indonesia

By Nigel Barley

Book information

Publisher
Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd.
Year
2013
ISBN
9814423467, 9789814423465
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2787692 bytes)
Edition
Updated
Pages
248\0
Time added
2018-06-23 09:44:28
Southeast Asia;Asia;History;General;Indonesia;Asia

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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