Roxana Waterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roxana Waterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roxana |
| FAMILY NAME | Waterson |
| SIGNATURE | WATERSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 304 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Savu: History and Oral Tradition on an Island of Indonesia
Savu: History and Oral Tradition on an Island of Indonesia is an unusual book, whose authors, anthropologist Genevieve Duggan and historian Hans Hagerdal, have produced a uniquely comprehensive acc
Learning to share emotions through ritual participation among the Toraja of Sulawesi
Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia: Studies in Spatial Anthropology, written by Gaudenz Domenig
Commentary on Harriot Beazley's paper ‘Multiple identities, multiple realities: Children who migrate independently for work in Southeast Asia
Commentary on Harriot Beazley's paper ‘Multiple identities, multiple realities: children who migrate independently for work in Southeast Asia'." Children's Geographies, 13(3), pp. 310–311
Holding Back the Mountain: Historical Imagination and the Future of Toraja- Bugis Relations
Tulisan ini mengkaji masa lalu dari sudut pandang 'ingatan sosial' ( social memory ) dan peranannya dalam mengonseptualisasi identitas serta hubungan-hubungan etnis dalam perubahan politik orang-orang Toraja dan Bugis di Sulawesi Selatan. Dalam perjalanan sejarah, kedua pihak selalu menjalin hubungan. Terdapat pula hubungan yang erat dalam bahasa dan kebudayaan mereka. Walaupun penduduk di dataran tinggi memiliki status yang marjinal dibandingkan…
Sustaining the energy: A celebration of the life of Judith Ennew
In October 2013 the world lost one of the leading lights of scholarship and advocacy for the human rights of children. Judith Ennew was an intellectual and an activist who shaped the global agenda for research with children, particularly in the Global South, for almost four decades. Judith was also a mentor and friend to many child researchers around the world. Here, we celebrate the incredible life of Judith Ennew as we remember the breadth and …
Judith Ennew (1944–2013) (Respond to this article at http: (Www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia
Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia applies a new theoretical literature on social memory to remembered events in Burma, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia. Highlighting connections between theorizing based on European examples and unresolved memory issues in East and Southeast Asia, the authors show how comparative study of the interpenetration of politics and lived bodily experience, of communal and personal…
Personal names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity
Personal names in Asia: history, culture and identity, edited by Zheng Yangwen and Charles J-H Macdonald, Singapore, NUS Press, 2010, 339 pp., (paperback), ISBN 978-9-9716-9380-0 This book sheds we
Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia
Edited by Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon 2012. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press
Flows of words and flows of blessing: The poetics of invocatory speech among the Sa'dan Toraja
The human propensity to address the unseen is a profound anthropological and linguistic puzzle. Ethnographers of 'prayer' in Southeast Asia have proposed that invocations are opposed as a form of utterance to other genres such as narration. This paper challenges that assumption with the analysis of some Toraja examples having a more declarative and instrumental quality. It also expands on Schefold's observations (2001) about 'flows of blessing' a…
A certain age: Colonial Jakarta through the memories of its intellectuals - By Rudolf Mrázek
Introduction: Extending Ethnographic Research with Children in the Asia-Pacific Region
While some have critiqued anthropologists' apparent neglect of children as potential research subjects, several recent works have pointed out that far more research has been done on the anthropology of childhoods than many of us may realise. The idea of doing ethnographic research with children has not yet been sufficiently mainstreamed in anthropology, though the need for such research has never been more urgent. This is nowhere more true than i…
Testimony, trauma and performance: Some examples from Southeast Asian theatre
This paper is a reflection on a number of theatre performances held in Singapore, each of which probed problematic or traumatic historical events occurring either in Singapore itself or in other parts of Southeast Asia. These avant-garde performances were inspired by or built around actual testimonies of individuals in ways which, for this author, suggest a striking fluidity in the boundaries between testimony and performance, one that raises dif…
Paths and Rivers: Sa'dan Toraja Society in Transformation
Fieldwork extending over a thirty-year period provided materials for this book. Paths and Rivers offers an unusually deep and broad picture of the Sa'dan Toraja as a society in dynamic transition over the course of the past century. The Toraja inhabit the mountainous highlands of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and are well known for their dramatic architecture, their unusual cliff burials, and their flamboyant ceremonial life, which places extraordin…
Paths and Rivers; Sa’dan Toraja Society in Transformation: Sa'dan Toraja society in transformation
Fieldwork extending over a thirty-year period provided materials for this book. Paths and Rivers offers an unusually deep and broad picture of the Sa’dan Toraja as a society in dynamic transition over the course of the past century. The Toraja inhabit the mountainous highlands of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and are well known for their dramatic architecture, their unusual cliff burials, and their flamboyant ceremonial life, which places extraordin…
Reconciliation as ritual: Comparative perspectives on innovation and performance in processes of reconciliation
In the past three decades, extraordinary developments have taken place in a number of countries making a transition from authoritarian regimes to democratic governments.1 This has given rise to the emergent field of study of transitional justice.2 As for the best means of achieving such transitions, debates are still vigorous about the relative merits of truth and reconciliation commissions (TRCs) versus criminal proceedings, whether in the conte…
The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility Across the Indian Ocean
The right to be properly researched: Research With Children in a Messy, Real World
Unless they focus on epidemiological debates, most thematic issues of social-science journals concentrate on research results, describing methods only as a means to an end. Nevertheless, the burgeoning field of research with children in the context of international rights-based programming has placed a new spotlight on epidemiological questions. What exactly (and what age) is a child when seen as the subject rather than object of research? How do…
Ironic Engagements: Wong Hoy Cheong's transmedia exhibition Bound for Glory, the National University of Singapore Museum, September 11-November 23, 2008
Art as Politics: Re-Crafting Identities, Tourism, and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia
Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas
Trajectories of Memory: Documentary Film and the Transmission of Testimony
The author argues that in the burgeoning new literature about social memory anthropologists have not yet contributed all that they might. In particular, little has been written from an anthropological point of view about memory and film. The article seeks to examine the possible roles of documentary film in memory transmission. During the twentieth century, film and video became increasingly important vehicles of memory, while the digital revolut…
The Contested Landscapes of Myth and History in Tana Toraja
Constituting Unity and Difference: Vernacular Architecture in a Minangkabau Village (review)
The living house: An anthropology of architecture in South-East Asia
The right to be properly researched: Research With Children in a Messy, Real World
Unless they focus on epidemiological debates, most thematic issues of social-science journals concentrate on research results, describing methods only as a means to an end. Nevertheless, the burgeoning field of research with children in the context of international rights-based programming has placed a new spotlight on epidemiological questions. What exactly (and what age) is a child when seen as the subject rather than object of research? How do…
About the House: Lévi-Strauss and Beyond
The domestic unit is inseparable from its homestead, and the 'house', at once a physical place and a social unit, is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, and even a political faction. Inspired by Lévi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble houses of medieval Europe were simply the best-known examples of a widespread social institution, the contributors to this collection analyse 'house' systems in Southeast…
Houses, graves and the limits of kinship groupings among the Sa'dan Toraja
Chez les Sa'dan Toraja du Sud du Sulawesi, le systeme de parente est indissociable des maisons (« tongkonan »), du groupe de parente bilaterale (« rapu ») et de la tombe (« liang »). L'appartenance a tel ou tel groupe est revendiquee par rapport a la maison d'origine et les relations entre les differentes branches peuvent evoluer. Quant a l'emplacement du mort, etre enterre dans la tombe du « rapu » est une question d'honneur et est lie a la rela…
Trajectories of Memory: Documentary Film and the Transmission of Testimony
The author argues that in the burgeoning new literature about social memory anthropologists have not yet contributed all that they might. In particular, little has been written from an anthropological point of view about memory and film. The article seeks to examine the possible roles of documentary film in memory transmission. During the twentieth century, film and video became increasingly important vehicles of memory, while the digital revolut…
The Living House: An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia
Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
The ideology and terminology of kinship among the Sa'dan Toraja
This article examines the ideology and terminology of kinship among the Sa'dan Toraja of Sulawesi, Indonesia. It analyzes how Torajan kinship terms reflect a complex system of social organization based on descent, marriage, and alliance. Waterson argues that the Torajan system, while seemingly emphasizing bilateral descent, actually privileges the male line in terms of inheritance and ritual leadership. The article explores the meanings of key ki…
Flows of words and flows of blessing: The poetics of invocatory speech among the Sa'dan Toraja
The human propensity to address the unseen is a profound anthropological and linguistic puzzle. Ethnographers of 'prayer' in Southeast Asia have proposed that invocations are opposed as a form of utterance to other genres such as narration. This paper challenges that assumption with the analysis of some Toraja examples having a more declarative and instrumental quality. It also expands on Schefold's observations (2001) about 'flows of blessing' a…
Sustaining the energy: A celebration of the life of Judith Ennew
In October 2013 the world lost one of the leading lights of scholarship and advocacy for the human rights of children. Judith Ennew was an intellectual and an activist who shaped the global agenda for research with children, particularly in the Global South, for almost four decades. Judith was also a mentor and friend to many child researchers around the world. Here, we celebrate the incredible life of Judith Ennew as we remember the breadth and …
Testimony, trauma and performance: Some examples from Southeast Asian theatre
This paper is a reflection on a number of theatre performances held in Singapore, each of which probed problematic or traumatic historical events occurring either in Singapore itself or in other parts of Southeast Asia. These avant-garde performances were inspired by or built around actual testimonies of individuals in ways which, for this author, suggest a striking fluidity in the boundaries between testimony and performance, one that raises dif…
Hornbill, Naga and Cock in Sa'dan and Toraja Woodcarving Motifs
Waterson Roxana. Hornbill, Naga and Cock in Sa'dan and Toraja Woodcarving Motifs. In: Archipel, volume 38, 1989. pp. 53-73
Short notes: Is this evidence for the lost Kingdoms of Tambora? — News from Singapore. — The Muzeum Azji i Pacyfiku (Asia and Pacific museum), Warsaw
(1984). Short notes: Is this evidence for the lost Kingdoms of Tambora? — News from Singapore. — The Muzeum Azji i Pacyfiku (Asia and Pacific museum), Warsaw. Indonesia Circle. School of Oriental & African Studies. Newsletter: Vol. 12, No. 33, pp. 30-39
Feasts of Honor. Ritual and Change in the Toraja Highlands
The ideology and terminology of kinship among the Sa'dan Toraja
This article examines the ideology and terminology of kinship among the Sa'dan Toraja of Sulawesi, Indonesia. It analyzes how Torajan kinship terms reflect a complex system of social organization based on descent, marriage, and alliance. Waterson argues that the Torajan system, while seemingly emphasizing bilateral descent, actually privileges the male line in terms of inheritance and ritual leadership. The article explores the meanings of key ki…
The House and the World: The Symbolism of Sa'Dan Toraja House Carvings
De la hutte au palais. Societes ä maison" en Asie du Sud-Est insulaire [From Hut to Palace. Societies of "Houses" in Insular South-East Asia]
Hornbill, Naga and Cock in Sa'dan and Toraja Woodcarving Motifs
Waterson Roxana. Hornbill, Naga and Cock in Sa'dan and Toraja Woodcarving Motifs. In: Archipel, volume 38, 1989. pp. 53-73
The living house: An anthropology of architecture in South-East Asia
Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Taking the Place of Sorrow: The Dynamics of Mortuary Rites among the Sa'dan Toraj a
About the House: Lévi-Strauss and Beyond
The domestic unit is inseparable from its homestead, and the 'house', at once a physical place and a social unit, is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, and even a political faction. Inspired by Lévi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble houses of medieval Europe were simply the best-known examples of a widespread social institution, the contributors to this collection analyse 'house' systems in Southeast…
Entertaining a Dangerous Guest: Sacrifice and Play in the Ma'pakorong Ritual of the Sa'dan Toraja
Ma'pakorong is a Toraja ritual performed in honour of the goddess of pox, Puang Ruru‘. She is invited into the village to be entertained with music, cockfighting, and food offerings before being escorted away with the expressed hope that she will not return for seven years. Ludic and sacrificial elements are inextricably interwoven in the rite, particularly in the cockfight, and I analyse these apparently contradictory elements in relation both t…
Houses, graves and the limits of kinship groupings among the Sa'dan Toraja
Chez les Sa'dan Toraja du Sud du Sulawesi, le systeme de parente est indissociable des maisons (« tongkonan »), du groupe de parente bilaterale (« rapu ») et de la tombe (« liang »). L'appartenance a tel ou tel groupe est revendiquee par rapport a la maison d'origine et les relations entre les differentes branches peuvent evoluer. Quant a l'emplacement du mort, etre enterre dans la tombe du « rapu » est une question d'honneur et est lie a la rela…
The Living House: An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia
The Architecture of South-East Asia through Travelers' Eyes
A Toraja Pilgrimage: The Life of Fritz Basiang
A Toraja pilgrimage: The life of Fritz Basiang
The Work of Memory and the Unfinished Past: Deepening and Widening the Social Study of Memory in Southeast Asia
The Contested Landscapes of Myth and History in Tana Toraja
Constituting Unity and Difference: Vernacular Architecture in a Minangkabau Village (review)
Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas
Trajectories of Memory: Documentary Film and the Transmission of Testimony
The author argues that in the burgeoning new literature about social memory anthropologists have not yet contributed all that they might. In particular, little has been written from an anthropological point of view about memory and film. The article seeks to examine the possible roles of documentary film in memory transmission. During the twentieth century, film and video became increasingly important vehicles of memory, while the digital revolut…
Art as Politics: Re-Crafting Identities, Tourism, and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia
Paths and Rivers: Sa'dan Toraja Society in Transformation
Fieldwork extending over a thirty-year period provided materials for this book. Paths and Rivers offers an unusually deep and broad picture of the Sa'dan Toraja as a society in dynamic transition over the course of the past century. The Toraja inhabit the mountainous highlands of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and are well known for their dramatic architecture, their unusual cliff burials, and their flamboyant ceremonial life, which places extraordin…
Paths and Rivers; Sa’dan Toraja Society in Transformation: Sa'dan Toraja society in transformation
Fieldwork extending over a thirty-year period provided materials for this book. Paths and Rivers offers an unusually deep and broad picture of the Sa’dan Toraja as a society in dynamic transition over the course of the past century. The Toraja inhabit the mountainous highlands of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and are well known for their dramatic architecture, their unusual cliff burials, and their flamboyant ceremonial life, which places extraordin…
Reconciliation as ritual: Comparative perspectives on innovation and performance in processes of reconciliation
In the past three decades, extraordinary developments have taken place in a number of countries making a transition from authoritarian regimes to democratic governments.1 This has given rise to the emergent field of study of transitional justice.2 As for the best means of achieving such transitions, debates are still vigorous about the relative merits of truth and reconciliation commissions (TRCs) versus criminal proceedings, whether in the conte…
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