Description: Art as politics

Main Author:	Adams, Kathleen M., 1957-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2006]
Physical Description:	xi, 286 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm.
Series:	Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
Subjects:	Toraja (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs. Toraja (Indonesian people) -- Ethnic identity. Wood-carving, Toraja -- Indonesia -- Sulawesi. Architecture, Toraja -- Indonesia -- Sulawesi. Culture and tourism -- Indonesia -- Sulawesi. Sulawesi (Indonesia) -- Ethnic relations. Sulawesi (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs.

Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-273) and index. Carvings, Christianity, and CHiPs -- Competing Toraja images of identity -- The carved tongkonan -- Mortuary effigies and identity politics -- Ceremonials, monumental displays, and museumification -- Toraja icons on the national and transnational stage -- Carving new conceptions of community in an era of religious and ethnic violence -- From Toraja heritage to world heritage.
Physical Description:	xi, 286 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-273) and index.
ISBN:	0824829999 9780824829995 0824830725 9780824830724