Goslinga, Ringel; Robin Uleman et al.

Ringel Goslinga

ISBN 10: 9493363155 / ISBN 13: 9789493363151

Published by Breda, The Eriskay Connection, 2024

About this Item

Folded stiff wrappers (softcover), 334p, illustrations (chiefly color), 25 cm. Very good/fine, clean, crisp, unmarked. Text in English and Dutch. Signed by Goslinga.

Seller Inventory # JHJ_2025_10_18_2

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Goslinga, Ringel; Robin Uleman et al.
• Publisher: Breda, The Eriskay Connection
• Publication Date: 2024
• ISBN 10: 9493363155
• ISBN 13: 9789493363151
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

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Synopsis

Aluk To Dolo shows how a family history became intertwined with the colonial history of the former Dutch East Indies. The spread of Christianity as a new faith was received with mixed feelings on Sulawesi, home of the Toraja people. Traditional feasts and rites were banned in return for education, churches, and medical care. Almost a century later, Ringel Goslinga (NL) meets the Toraja of today and learns about the local customs and objects that still play a role in their culture. What began as a photographic research into the interface between ancestor worship and missionary work, gradually deepened into a study of almost extinct animistic patterns and traditional weaving forms. In the process, Goslinga learned the ‘language’ of weaving and sought to record these customs and traditions before they fall into oblivion.