Dark Trembling: Ethnographic Notes on Secrecy and Concealment in Highland Sulawesi
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This ethnographic commentary explores the role of secrecy and concealment in a minority religious community in highland Sulawesi (Indonesia), and their place in the construction of ethnographic discourse. Discussion shows how a "culture of concealment" has emerged as a practical and realistic response to encroaching ideologies and social formations since the pre-colonial era. At the same time, the political use of secrecy takes its idioms from ritual practice, a site in which concealment...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 1993-10 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/99893 |
Source: | Anthropological Quarterly |
DOI: | 10.2307/3318066 |
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