Material words
The aesthetic grammar of Toraja textiles, carvings, and ritual language
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 2391180 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Aurora Donzelli (0000-0001-5523-9463, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, USA, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2020 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 167-195 |
| Data de publicação | 2020-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal of Material Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586 |
| Editora | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1359183519858378 |
| OpenAlex | W2962491682 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 36 |
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 in fact are related systems of semiotic expressions in Indonesia and beyond. By bringing within a single analytic field the forms of ritual speech, textiles, and woodcarving she documented during long-term intermittent fieldwork in Sulawesi (2002-2018), the author highlights fundamental commonalities in how these different semiotic codes operate and in the local conceptions of authorship and craftsmanship. She shows how key aspects of Toraja vernacular semiotics, aesthetics, and hermeneutics are embedded in a materialist ideology of language and suggests that a joint approach to meaning-making practice across different modalities, channels, and media may further our understanding of Indonesian figurative languages and help delineate the larger cultural poetics underlying Austronesian artistic productions
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Grammar · Hermeneutics · Iconicity · Ideology · Indonesian · Linguistics · Literal and figurative language · Literature · Meaning (existential · Poetics · Poetry · Politics · Semiotics · Semiotics of culture · Sociology · Vernacular · Anthropology · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy
Language and Materiality
The Life of Lines
Language Ideologies
The Sa'dan-Toraja
Securing a Place
Language from the Body
Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia
Natural histories of discourse
To Speak in Pairs
Language Ideology
Introduction
Leaves of the Same Tree
Paths and Rivers
The Heritage of Arung Palakka
Power in Performance
Signs of Recognition
Kings and Covenants
Words on the lips and meanings in the stomach
To Speak in Pairs. Essays on the Ritual Languages of Eastern Indonesia
To Speak with Cloth
Splendid Symbols
Inalienable Possessions
Feasts of Honor. Ritual and Change in the Toraja Highlands
Anthropological Theory
Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse
Lines
Structural Aspects of a Village Art1
Packaged Sentiments
Books, Letters, Documents
Producing Authenticity in Global Capitalism
Semiotics and the social analysis of material things
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
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| Altamente citado | Não |