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One or Two Words - Language and Politics in the Toraja Highlands of Indonesia (Hardcover)
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One or Two Words - Language and Politics in the Toraja Highlands of Indonesia (Hardcover)
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The expression "one or two words" is used by the Toraja highlanders
of Indonesia to refer euphemistically to their highly elaborate
form of political speechmaking. Moving from this understatement,
which denotes the meaningfulness of transient acts of speech, One
or Two Words offers an analysis of the shifting power relations
between centers and peripheries in one of the world's most
linguistically diverse countries. Drawing on long-term fieldwork,
this book explores how people forge forms of collective belonging
to a distinctive locality through the exchange of spoken words,
WhatsApp messages, ritual gifts of pigs and buffaloes, and the
performance of elaborate political speeches and ritual chants.
Aurora Donzelli describes the complex forms of cosmopolitan
indigeneity that have emerged in the Toraja highlands during
several decades of encounters with a variety of local and
international interlocutors. By engaging wider debates on the
dynamics of cultural and linguistic change vis-Ã -vis
globalizing influences, the book sheds light onto a hitherto
neglected dimension of post-Suharto Indonesia: the recalibration of
power relations between national and local languages prompted by
recent institutional transformations and the re-articulation of the
relations between the central state and its peripheries through
acts of speech.
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