Toraja

by Barley, Nigel

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Title Statements

Full title :Toraja / Nigel Barley.

Summary

"In 1985, Dr Nigel Barley, then senior anthroplogist at the Britrish Museum, taught himself Indonesian and set off for the relatively unknown Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Here he hoped to find unsullied cultures to study and unpoilt natives to investigate. [He] soon found plenty to wonder at and plenty to admire among the Toraja, a vastly interesting people whose culture includes headhunting, transvestite priests and the massacre of buffalo ... offers fascinating insight into the people of Sulawesi and their lifestyles, and he recounts hilarious tales of the many memorable characters he meets there, not least the four Torajan woodcarvers the author invites back to London to construct an Indonesian rice barn in the British Museum"--Publisher's description.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Monsoon
Place of Publication:Singapore
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:232, [8] pages of plates : : illustrations ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789814423465, 9814423467
oclc:ocn980610319
Dewey Decimal:959.80049922

Subjects

Anthropologists Anthropologists -- Indonesia Architecture toradja Architecture, Toraja Barley, Nigel Indonesia -- Sulawesi Barat Sulawesi Barat (Indonesia) -- Descripti… Toradja (Peuple d'Indonésie) -- Mœurs e… Toraja (Indonesian people) -- Social li… travel