Dimitri Tsintjilonis
Biographic Data
| ID | 84844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dimitri Tsintjilonis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dimitri |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsintjilonis |
| SIGNATURE | TSINTJILONIS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The past is a promise to the future: Stories, persons, and the devil in Greece
Drawing on ethnography from central Greece, this article is about the way people narrate their encounters with the devil. Although it echoes the idea that life as told and life as lived are structured in the same way, it takes the argument a step further by suggesting they are structured through a narrative plot wherein the present and the future of the story-tellers pre-date the past of which their stories tell. It also foregrounds the link betw…
The will to improve: Governmentality, development, and the practice of politics – By Tania Murray Li
Community in the balance: Morality and social change in an Indonesian society - By James M. Hagen
The Death-Bearing Senses in Tana Toraja
Based on fieldwork among the Sa'dan Toraja of Indonesia, this article explores a specific connection between the living and the dead. Perceived as a sensual relationship embedded in a particular sensory modality, this connection implies an indigenous phenomenology of 'death-as-being-in-the-world'. Focusing on this 'being' and utilizing Paul Valéry's evocative description of the 'glance of death' to introduce and formulate my argument, I explore t…
Monsters and caricatures: Spirit possession in Tana Toraja
Focusing on a specific healing ritual, this article explores the efficacy of spirit possession in Tana Toraja. Framed in terms of indigenous exegesis, this exploration centres on the link between spirit possession and death, which manifests an intrinsic connection between spirit possession and sacrifice. In articulating this connection, the article foregrounds the body of the healer and attempts to explicate its 'monstrous' potency
The flow of life in Buntao'; Southeast Asian animism reconsidered
Words of intimacy: Re-membering the dead in Buntao
Based on fieldwork among the Sa'dan Toraja of Indonesia, this article examines a specific relationship between the living and the dead. It is a relationship which is usually described in terms of intimacy. Within this intimacy, the living and the dead are described as sharing the same desires. Furthermore, as far as the living are concerned, these desires have to be expressed in words and acted out in the form of mortuary sacrifices. In this way,…
A Head for the Dead: Sacred Violence in Tana Toraja
Dimitri Tsintjilonis Utilisant des informations ethnographiques de la région de Buntao', cet article examine la pratique traditionnelle de la chasse aux têtes chez les Toraja Sa'dan (Sulawesi), une pratique qui a conservé une grande signification, bien qu'elle soit abandonnée depuis longtemps. La perception indigène de la relation entre vie et mort est basée sur la conscience que la création dérive de la dissolution. Parce qu'elle contribue à la …
Death and the Sacrifice of Signs: Measuring' the Dead in Tana Toraja
Suggesting the existence of an intrinsic connection between sacrifice and embodiment, this article considers the meaning and symbolism of traditional mortuary rituals among the Sa'dan Toraja of Indonesia. Manifesting different ways of being, these rituals engender different ways of dying. Focusing on the sacrificial patterns of their engenderment, I discuss these differences and the way in which they are thought to 'emerge from the body
Being in place and being a place; Sumanga' in Buntao
Likewise for the Sa'dan Toraja of South Sulawesi, as an early commentator put it, 'there is something, they believe, that is neither matter nor force. Let us call it soul. It is this soul that makes all living things tick men and women, birds, beasts and fishes, flowers and trees. It exists in differing quant ities or concentrations in different living things' (Wilcox 1949:117). Ebbing and flowing, however, this 'soul' remains elusive and invisib…
Embodied difference; The 'body-person' of the Sa'dan Toraja
In Tana Toraja1, as elsewhere in insular Southeast Asia (see Fox 1987:526), humankind is not believed to have a single origin or source of being. The indigenous notion of humanity comprises a multiplicity of heterogeneous manifestations. For instance, while some humans are described as ripe, others are depicted as raw, soft, wet, and even empty. Deeply embedded in myth and legend, epithets such as these are thought to encode disparate ways of bei…
The flow of life in Buntao'; Southeast Asian animism reconsidered
Death and the Sacrifice of Signs: Measuring' the Dead in Tana Toraja
Suggesting the existence of an intrinsic connection between sacrifice and embodiment, this article considers the meaning and symbolism of traditional mortuary rituals among the Sa'dan Toraja of Indonesia. Manifesting different ways of being, these rituals engender different ways of dying. Focusing on the sacrificial patterns of their engenderment, I discuss these differences and the way in which they are thought to 'emerge from the body
Embodied difference; The 'body-person' of the Sa'dan Toraja
In Tana Toraja1, as elsewhere in insular Southeast Asia (see Fox 1987:526), humankind is not believed to have a single origin or source of being. The indigenous notion of humanity comprises a multiplicity of heterogeneous manifestations. For instance, while some humans are described as ripe, others are depicted as raw, soft, wet, and even empty. Deeply embedded in myth and legend, epithets such as these are thought to encode disparate ways of bei…
Being in place and being a place; Sumanga' in Buntao
Likewise for the Sa'dan Toraja of South Sulawesi, as an early commentator put it, 'there is something, they believe, that is neither matter nor force. Let us call it soul. It is this soul that makes all living things tick men and women, birds, beasts and fishes, flowers and trees. It exists in differing quant ities or concentrations in different living things' (Wilcox 1949:117). Ebbing and flowing, however, this 'soul' remains elusive and invisib…
The Death-Bearing Senses in Tana Toraja
Based on fieldwork among the Sa'dan Toraja of Indonesia, this article explores a specific connection between the living and the dead. Perceived as a sensual relationship embedded in a particular sensory modality, this connection implies an indigenous phenomenology of 'death-as-being-in-the-world'. Focusing on this 'being' and utilizing Paul Valéry's evocative description of the 'glance of death' to introduce and formulate my argument, I explore t…
Words of intimacy: Re-membering the dead in Buntao
Based on fieldwork among the Sa'dan Toraja of Indonesia, this article examines a specific relationship between the living and the dead. It is a relationship which is usually described in terms of intimacy. Within this intimacy, the living and the dead are described as sharing the same desires. Furthermore, as far as the living are concerned, these desires have to be expressed in words and acted out in the form of mortuary sacrifices. In this way,…
A Head for the Dead: Sacred Violence in Tana Toraja
Dimitri Tsintjilonis Utilisant des informations ethnographiques de la région de Buntao', cet article examine la pratique traditionnelle de la chasse aux têtes chez les Toraja Sa'dan (Sulawesi), une pratique qui a conservé une grande signification, bien qu'elle soit abandonnée depuis longtemps. La perception indigène de la relation entre vie et mort est basée sur la conscience que la création dérive de la dissolution. Parce qu'elle contribue à la …
The past is a promise to the future: Stories, persons, and the devil in Greece
Drawing on ethnography from central Greece, this article is about the way people narrate their encounters with the devil. Although it echoes the idea that life as told and life as lived are structured in the same way, it takes the argument a step further by suggesting they are structured through a narrative plot wherein the present and the future of the story-tellers pre-date the past of which their stories tell. It also foregrounds the link betw…
Monsters and caricatures: Spirit possession in Tana Toraja
Focusing on a specific healing ritual, this article explores the efficacy of spirit possession in Tana Toraja. Framed in terms of indigenous exegesis, this exploration centres on the link between spirit possession and death, which manifests an intrinsic connection between spirit possession and sacrifice. In articulating this connection, the article foregrounds the body of the healer and attempts to explicate its 'monstrous' potency
Embodied difference; The 'body-person' of the Sa'dan Toraja
In Tana Toraja1, as elsewhere in insular Southeast Asia (see Fox 1987:526), humankind is not believed to have a single origin or source of being. The indigenous notion of humanity comprises a multiplicity of heterogeneous manifestations. For instance, while some humans are described as ripe, others are depicted as raw, soft, wet, and even empty. Deeply embedded in myth and legend, epithets such as these are thought to encode disparate ways of bei…
Being in place and being a place; Sumanga' in Buntao
Likewise for the Sa'dan Toraja of South Sulawesi, as an early commentator put it, 'there is something, they believe, that is neither matter nor force. Let us call it soul. It is this soul that makes all living things tick men and women, birds, beasts and fishes, flowers and trees. It exists in differing quant ities or concentrations in different living things' (Wilcox 1949:117). Ebbing and flowing, however, this 'soul' remains elusive and invisib…
A Head for the Dead: Sacred Violence in Tana Toraja
Dimitri Tsintjilonis Utilisant des informations ethnographiques de la région de Buntao', cet article examine la pratique traditionnelle de la chasse aux têtes chez les Toraja Sa'dan (Sulawesi), une pratique qui a conservé une grande signification, bien qu'elle soit abandonnée depuis longtemps. La perception indigène de la relation entre vie et mort est basée sur la conscience que la création dérive de la dissolution. Parce qu'elle contribue à la …
Death and the Sacrifice of Signs: Measuring' the Dead in Tana Toraja
Suggesting the existence of an intrinsic connection between sacrifice and embodiment, this article considers the meaning and symbolism of traditional mortuary rituals among the Sa'dan Toraja of Indonesia. Manifesting different ways of being, these rituals engender different ways of dying. Focusing on the sacrificial patterns of their engenderment, I discuss these differences and the way in which they are thought to 'emerge from the body
The flow of life in Buntao'; Southeast Asian animism reconsidered
Words of intimacy: Re-membering the dead in Buntao
Based on fieldwork among the Sa'dan Toraja of Indonesia, this article examines a specific relationship between the living and the dead. It is a relationship which is usually described in terms of intimacy. Within this intimacy, the living and the dead are described as sharing the same desires. Furthermore, as far as the living are concerned, these desires have to be expressed in words and acted out in the form of mortuary sacrifices. In this way,…
Monsters and caricatures: Spirit possession in Tana Toraja
Focusing on a specific healing ritual, this article explores the efficacy of spirit possession in Tana Toraja. Framed in terms of indigenous exegesis, this exploration centres on the link between spirit possession and death, which manifests an intrinsic connection between spirit possession and sacrifice. In articulating this connection, the article foregrounds the body of the healer and attempts to explicate its 'monstrous' potency
The Death-Bearing Senses in Tana Toraja
Based on fieldwork among the Sa'dan Toraja of Indonesia, this article explores a specific connection between the living and the dead. Perceived as a sensual relationship embedded in a particular sensory modality, this connection implies an indigenous phenomenology of 'death-as-being-in-the-world'. Focusing on this 'being' and utilizing Paul Valéry's evocative description of the 'glance of death' to introduce and formulate my argument, I explore t…
Community in the balance: Morality and social change in an Indonesian society - By James M. Hagen
The will to improve: Governmentality, development, and the practice of politics – By Tania Murray Li
The past is a promise to the future: Stories, persons, and the devil in Greece
Drawing on ethnography from central Greece, this article is about the way people narrate their encounters with the devil. Although it echoes the idea that life as told and life as lived are structured in the same way, it takes the argument a step further by suggesting they are structured through a narrative plot wherein the present and the future of the story-tellers pre-date the past of which their stories tell. It also foregrounds the link betw…
Sociology (11 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · History (6 works) · History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Asian Studies and History (5 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (5 works)