摘要Examines political and symbolic issues inherent in the touristic renegotiation of Torajan ritual and history. Strategies whereby Torajans attempt to refashion outsider imagery to enhance their own personal standing and position in the Indonesian ethnic hierarchy; Assumption that tourism promotion brings a loss of agency to indigenous peoples.
This article examines some of the political and symbolic issues inherent in the touristic renegotiation of Torajan ritual and history, chronicling the strategies whereby Torajans attempt to refashion outsider imagery to enhance their own personal standing and position in the Indonesian ethnic hierarchy. The author suggests that the Toraja case challenges the popular assumption that tourism promotion brings a complete loss of agency to indigenous peoples: Torajans not only engage in ingenious political strategies to enhance their group's image, but vigorously contest perceived threats to their identity and power. The author argues that such processes of self-conscious cultural reformulation do not necessarily imply a collapse in meaning or emotive power; rather, the Toraja case lends support to recent calls to rethink the discourse of "authenticity" and "staged authenticity." (Toraja, tourism, Indonesia, ethnic imagery, invention of tradition)
作者: Adams, Kathleen M.
名稱: Ethnology
出處:Fall97, Vol. 36 Issue 4, p309, 12p,
關鍵字: Toraja (Indonesian people); Manners & customs
摘要Examines political and symbolic issues inherent in the touristic renegotiation of Torajan ritual and history. Strategies whereby Torajans attempt to refashion outsider imagery to enhance their own personal standing and position in the Indonesian ethnic hierarchy; Assumption that tourism promotion brings a loss of agency to indigenous peoples.
This article examines some of the political and symbolic issues inherent in the touristic renegotiation of Torajan ritual and history, chronicling the strategies whereby Torajans attempt to refashion outsider imagery to enhance their own personal standing and position in the Indonesian ethnic hierarchy. The author suggests that the Toraja case challenges the popular assumption that tourism promotion brings a complete loss of agency to indigenous peoples: Torajans not only engage in ingenious political strategies to enhance their group's image, but vigorously contest perceived threats to their identity and power. The author argues that such processes of self-conscious cultural reformulation do not necessarily imply a collapse in meaning or emotive power; rather, the Toraja case lends support to recent calls to rethink the discourse of "authenticity" and "staged authenticity." (Toraja, tourism, Indonesia, ethnic imagery, invention of tradition)
審查托拉詹儀式和歷史的旅遊重新談判所固有的政治和象徵性問題。Torajans試圖重塑局外人形象的策略，以提高他們在印尼民族等級制度中的個人地位和地位;假定促進旅遊業給土著人民帶來機構損失。
本文探討了托拉詹儀式和歷史的旅遊重新談判所固有的一些政治和象徵性問題，並記錄了托拉揚人試圖重塑局外人形象以提高他們在印尼種族等級制度中的個人地位和地位的策略。提交人認為，Toraja案挑戰了普遍假設，即旅遊業促進給土著人民帶來了完全喪失代理權：Torajans不僅採取巧妙的政治戰略，以提高其群體的形象，而且有力地反對對自身特性和權力所感知到的威脅。作者認為，這種自我意識的文化再造過程並不一定意味著意義或情感力量的崩潰;相反，Toraja案支援了最近關於重新思考"真實性"和"階段性真實性"話語的呼籲。（Toraja，旅遊， 印尼，民族形象， 傳統發明）