Art as Politics: Re-Crafting Identities, Tourism, and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia

by Kathleen M. Adams

Book Overview

Art as Politics explores the intersection of art, identity politics, and tourism in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Based on long-term ethnographic research from the 1980s to the present, the book offers a nuanced portrayal of the Sa'dan Toraja, a predominantly Christian minority group in the world's most populous Muslim country. Celebrated in anthropological and tourism literatures for their spectacular traditional houses, sculpted effigies of the dead,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824830725
• ISBN13: 9780824830724
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"