Lyric, History, and Allegory, or the End of Headhunting Ritual in Highland Sulawesi
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This article explores how a minority religious community in highland Sulawesi, Indonesia, brings meaning, history, and polity into being through the lyric discourse of headhunting ritual. The discussion shows how divergent interpretations of a single song work as tactical modes of understanding, as ways to “read with the polity.” In one case, a villager reads the lyrics in such a way as to link the ritual headhunt to the intercultural tensions of the past. In another case, however, a villager...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 1993-11 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/99894 |
Source: | American Ethnologist |
DOI: | 10.1525/ae.1993.20.4.02a00020 |
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