Toraja Cultural Landscape: Tongkonan Vernacular Architecture and Toraja Coffee Culture

Tongkonan is a style of vernacular architecture famous in Toraja, a mountainous region in Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Tongkonan traditional house is a symbol of the Toraja people, representing the ancestors and the entire cosmos of life – from birth to death. The houses and their arrangement within a...

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Main Authors: Octaviana Sylvia Caroline Rombe, Hong Ching Goh, Zuraini Md. Ali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: James Cook University 2022-03-01
Series:eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
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Online Access:https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3822