Material words: The aesthetic grammar of Toraja textiles, carvings, and ritual language

This article examines the intersections between ritual speech, woodcarving, and painted sacred cloths among the Toraja of upland Sulawesi, Indonesia. The author argues that the longstanding division between studies of speechmaking and material culture has obfuscated significant overlaps between what...

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Main Author: Donzelli, Aurora (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. [2019]
In: Journal of material culture
Year: 2020, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 167-195
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BB Indigenous religions
KBM Asia
Further subjects:B ritual speechmaking
B Upland Sulawesi
B woodcarving
B aesthetic and semiotic ideologies
B Textiles
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