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Making|up the Toraja? The Appropriation of Tourism


Tana Toraja Tours - Local Guides

Tana Toraja is known for its death rituals. Less known is the mesmerising landscape and scenic treks through mountain villages, bamboo forests and cacao ...

Toraja, Indonesia: What to Know Before You Go - TripSavvy

What Sets Toraja Culture Apart From the Rest of Indonesia? ... As the lowland Bugis and Makassar people underwent conversion to Islam, the Toraja ...

A Guide to Tana Toraja: Drinks, Attractions and Transportation

Growing up in Tana Toraja, Linda met lots of tourists with blonde hair, white skin and blue eyes. It created a dream that one day she would become the tourist ...

Tana Toraja – Funerals, Slaughter and Christmas - the dive safari

Tourists began visiting the region in the 1970s and by the 1980s Tana Toraja was said to be second only to Bali as an Indonesian tourist ...

Torajan people - Wikipedia

Today, tourism and remittances from migrant Torajans have made for major changes in the Toraja highland, giving the Toraja a celebrity status within Indonesia ...

How to get to Tana Toraja, The heart of Sulawesi

However, making our way to the hotel proved to be harder than we thought. ... Kids are washing themselves in the puddles while their families start setting up ...

Tana Toraja Regency - History, Travel Guide & Things to Do

The culture and tradition found in this village is as authentic as it was at the time of old age. You can see the heritage and historical findings once you pay ...

In Indonesia, a Region Where Death Is a Lure - The New York Times

The death rituals of the Torajan people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, are unusual and elaborate, and seeing the Torajan culture close up is ...

Identity, Heritage and Memorialization: The Toraja Tongkonan of ...

Indonesian tourism promotional materials spotlighted the carved Toraja tongkonan and what was once exclusively a marker of noble familial status was held up to ...

14 Amazing Things To Do In Tana Toraja - Traveltomtom.net

1. Toraja funeral ceremony ... Clearly this is among the best things to do in Toraja and many tourists from around the world are willing to ...

The Torajans of Sulawesi live to die - Los Angeles Times

They also have to budget for funeral donations to other families, while pampering and fattening up water buffaloes for sacrifice.

Tana Toraja funeral Sulawesi Indonesia - Museum of Wander

The makula stays in a sealed coffin and is kept inside the house with the family until they have saved up enough money to throw a big send-off ...

14 Unusual and Exciting Things to Do in Tana Toraja

For example the way Torajan corpses can be preserved for months and even up to a year until a proper funeral ceremony is held. The way and the sheer number of ...

Art as Politics: Re-Crafting Identities, Tourism, and Power in ... - Lirias

Toraja cultural displays play a role in national memory-making projects, Adams shows how local-level displays and ceremonial practices can transform a local ...

Torajan Death Rituals - TravelCake

Torajan funerals are a bloody affair. The deceased's soul is believed to travel to the afterlife on a buffalo or horse. How do you bring ...

Funeral Crashing in Tana Toraja, Sulawesi - Indonesia

The Toraja believe that when one dies, they not truly dead until the funeral ceremony is complete and they are laid in the burial caves. Being ...

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Making-up the Toraja? The appropriation of tourism, anthropology, and museums for politics in.. (engelsk). Af Kathleen M. Adams. artikel. Tilgængelig. Se online ...

How to get to Tana Toraja - backpackerlee

Funerals sometimes charge for tourist admission (10,000 Rupiah), and the prime 'funeral season' is between July and October. The most amazing ...

Tana Toraja Funerals: How to Visit Ethically

Summary: There is a way to visit the funerals of the Tanah Toraja people of Sulawesi ethically. They are not tourist spectacles, but true traditions that have ...

Why Toraja Tour is Always On Traveler's Top List when Exploring ...

From Dutch colonisations, peaking in tourism and accepting Christianity, the rather small land of Toraja has seen a lot through its course of ...