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The Toraja Burial Customs


In Indonesia, a Blurred Boundary Between the Living and the Dead

Known for their elaborate death rituals, which involve preserving and exhuming the dead and sacrificing livestock, Torajans invest vast sums of ...

Burial - Toraja, Sulawesi - The Australian Museum

After heirlooms were extensively plundered, Torajans began burying their dead in high cliff-face vaults. It is now common for people to be buried in family ...

Cleaning the dead: the afterlife rituals of the Torajan people

For the Torajan people of Indonesia, death is part of a spiritual journey: families keep the mummified remains of their deceased relatives ...

The Living Dead: Understanding the Culture of Tana Toraja

In stark contrast to Western culture, which tends to avoid death as much as possible, Torajans see earthly life as a single step in a great ...

Funerary Customs of the Toraja People, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Here I wish to share my experience I had with the Toraja people of Central Sulawesi. I had read about their unique funeral ceremonies and of a culture of ...

The biggest funerals in the world - How to see funerals in Toraja?

During the funeral ceremony in Toraja people wear black clothes as a sign of mooring. Normally, they wear t-shirt and sarong, both black, ...

Indonesia: Torajan people and their unique funerary custom

Indonesia: Torajan people and their unique funerary custom, Ma'nene is the most important day for the families. Every year, in the month of ...

5 Sacred and Unique Funeral Traditions in Toraja

The Toraja people make death as their daily topic. They believe that death is the ultimate milestone to attain the most eternal life.

Life among the dead : Indonesian Toraja death rituals

Indonesia's Toraja people keep their loved ones close in a manene death ritual.

Indonesia - Tana Toraja - Myend

A Toraja funeral ceremony often includes flute music and poems, while chanting and wailing. These rites, though, are not present if the deceased is a young ...

The cultural attitudes of a funeral ritual discourse in the indigenous ...

One of the famous cultures in Tana Toraja regency is Rambu Solo'; it is a unique funeral ritual because the procession involves numerous people.

Elaborate Funeral Rituals and Exhumation of the Dead in Toraja ...

When a Torajan dies, family members of the deceased are required to hold a series of funeral ceremonies, known as Rambu Soloq, which take place ...

Unique Funeral Traditions Become a Tourism Attraction in Indonesia

This funeral tradition from Tana Toraja, South Sulawesi, is believed by the Toraja people to be the completion of death, as well as a form ...

Tana Toraja funeral Sulawesi Indonesia - Museum of Wander

The people of Tana Toraja practice a complex funeral ceremony known as Rambu Solo which dictates that the deceased can only be buried during a certain time of ...

Living with Dead in Indonesia | BBC Our World | SAHAR ZAND

The dead are a constant presence in the Toraja area of Sulawesi in Indonesia ... 10 Of The Creepiest Funeral Customs Around The World! World List ...

PHOTOS: The Dead Live With Their Loved Ones On This ... - NPR

The Toraja people of Indonesia keep the preserved bodies of their deceased relatives at home for years. They're saving up for a big funeral.

Torajan people - Wikipedia

The Dutch colonial government named the people Toraja in 1909. ... Torajans are renowned for their elaborate funeral rites, burial sites carved into rocky cliffs, ...

What the extraordinary funeral rituals of Tana Toraja and Trunyan in ...

The people of Trunyan actually practice a spiritual custom that you are unable to find in other parts of Bali. It is unique.

Love Beyond Death: Toraja's Unique Funeral Rites - VICE

Torajans have unique funeral rites that include dressing and caring for their beloved dead relatives.

An Indonesian Tradition Of Digging Up Dead Relatives For A ...

... tradition of Ma'nene in South Sulawesi of Indonesia's Toraja ... “Today, Torajans are largely Christian, but their age-old funeral practices ...