By Roxana Waterson
The Toraja inhabit the mountainous highlands of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and are renowned for his or her dramatic structure, their strange cliff burials, and their flamboyant ceremonial existence. Paths and Rivers bargains an surprisingly deep and wide photo of the Sa'dan Toraja as a society in dynamic transition over the process the previous century.
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