PATHS AND RIVERS -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A note on orthography -- Introduction -- A return journey -- Life in Buttang -- PART ONE: The uses of the past -- Chapter I: Toraja and their neighbours Historical perspectives -- On modes of remembering the past -- Toraja in the Austronesian world -- Naming the Toraja -- Intimacies and enmities: Toraja relations with the Bugis -- Marginality and resistance: political relations between highlands and lowlands -- Chapter II: The view from the mountains -- The story of Laki Padada -- Heroes, tricksters, and relations with lowland kingdoms -- Chapter III: The Ancestors of the Same Dream -- 'Holding back the mountain of Bone': the seventeenth century -- The Ancestors of the Same Dream in oral memory -- Chapter IV: A time of chaos -- The 1890s: the 'Time of the Sidenreng people' -- The nineteenth century in local memory -- The commoditization of slavery -- Chapter V: The awakening of the oath Memory, identity and historical action -- Chapter VI: The colonial encounter and social transformation -- Dutch takeover and its initial impacts -- The Dutch Reformed Church Mission -- The modernizing process and the development of 'Toraja' identity -- Japanese Occupation and the struggle for independence -- PART TWO: A house society -- Chapter VII: The mythical origins of humans and their houses -- Laughter from the stone: cosmology and creation -- The house of Puang Matua -- The first carpenters -- The first humans on earth -- Sky and water meet on earth: the to manurun di langi' -- The to manurun in Malimbong -- Questions of precedence and links with the past -- Chapter VIII: A system of rank under strain -- On the mythical origins of slavery -- Regional variations in the ranking system -- Changing relationships between nobles and their dependents -- Chapter IX: Trunk and branch.

Houses, land and graves -- Metaphors of origin: the trunk and the tip -- The 'life' of the house -- The house and the rapu -- Hopes and dreams -- Chapter X: Blood and bone -- The inheritance of kinship substance -- The centrality of siblingship in the conceptualization of kin relations -- Fractions of kinship substance -- From siblings to affines, and back again -- PART THREE: Village life -- Chapter XI: Women and men -- On multiplicity and ambiguity in gender analysis -- Gender as an unmarked category in Tana Toraja -- Pairing and balance in marital relationships -- Mobility and stability: elements of difference in the characterisation of gender -- Chapter XII: Planting a hearth -- Courtship and engagement -- The marriage ritual -- Marriage and status: intermarriage between ranks -- Modernity and the changing style of weddings -- Chapter XIII: Land, labour and inheritance -- Sale, pawning and sharecropping of land -- Principles of inheritance -- Lotong's story -- Agricultural labour and the formation of communal work groups -- PART FOUR: Smoke of the rising and the setting sun -- Chapter XIV: The structure of Aluk To Dolo -- Rites of the East and the West -- Ancestors and deities in the landscape -- Intimacy with the ancestors -- Chapter XV: The enhancement of fertility -- The ritual rhythm of the agricultural cycle -- The ma'bua', climactic Rite of the East -- Chapter XVI: A changing religious landscape -- Local religions in the Indonesian national context -- Conversion, modernity and identity -- Chapter XVII: The making of ancestors -- The journey to the afterlife -- The organization of a funeral -- Chapter XVIII: Dynamics of the ceremonial economy -- Economic domains and their intersections in the Sa'dan highlands -- Shifting measures of value: buffaloes and money -- Mortuary ritual and the constitution of value -- Conclusion.

Appendix A PASSONDE-SONDE Prayer recited after the ritual of ma'tetean bori', (interpretation of dreams) at the conclusion of the house ceremony -- Appendix B CHANT FOR THE MA'BUGI' RITUAL -- Appendix C VERSES OF TWO MA' BADONG CHANTS FOR THE DECEASED (ossoran badong) -- Appendix D RANKED LEVELS OF THE FUNERAL CEREMONY -- Appendix E TABLE OF EXCHANGE VALUES AND INFLATION OVER THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- Appendix F Genealogies -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.