Aufsatz(elektronisch)9. Juni 2004
Words of intimacy: re‐membering the dead in Buntao'
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 375-393
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Abstract
Based on fieldwork among the Sa'dan Toraja of Indonesia, this article examines a specific relationship between the living and the dead. It is a relationship which is usually described in terms of intimacy. Within this intimacy, the living and the dead are described as sharing the same desires. Furthermore, as far as the living are concerned, these desires have to be expressed in words and acted out in the form of mortuary sacrifices. In this way, the living are said to remember the dead. My discussion focuses on the implications of this memory.
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