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Art As Politics: Re-Crafting Identities, Tourism, And Power In Tana Toraja, Indonesia, Kathleen Adams

Kathleen M. Adams

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, and pageantry-filled funeral rituals, the Toraja have entered an era of accelerated engagement with the global economy marked by on-going struggles over identity, religion, and social relations.

In her engaging account, Kathleen Adams chronicles how various …

Terror And Tourism: Charting The Ambivalent Allure Of The Urban Jungle, Kathleen Adams

Kathleen M. Adams

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