Tongkonan Social Identity: Families Harmonization on Interfaith Marriage in Toraja
| Main Authors: | Mashuri, Muhammad Fath, Helmi, Avin Fadilla |
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| Format: | Article PeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia
, 2019
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.umm.ac.id/59433/1/Mashuri%20Helmi%20-%20social%20identity%20interfaith%20marriage%20Tongkonan.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/59433/2/Peer%20Review%20-%20Mashuri%20-%20social%20identity%20interfaith%20marriage%20Tongkonan.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/59433/3/Similarity%20-%20Mashuri%20Helmi%20-%20social%20identity%20interfaith%20marriage%20Tongkonan.pdf http://eprints.umm.ac.id/59433/ http://journal.unhas.ac.id/index.php/etnosia/article/view/6450 |
Daftar Isi:
- The purpose of this article is to analyze how married couples of different faiths in Toraja harmonize their differences from the perspective of social identity. Interfaith marriage can be called a meeting of inter-social identities specifically within the context of family. It is therefore an indispensable part of the process for every interfaith marriage couple to de-categorize and re-categorize and consolidate their social identity as a couple so that they can successfully define their new family values. This reseach used an ethnographic approach with three interfaith families in Toraja as a unit of analysis. The results show that these married couples operationalize a dual-hierarchical identity model in an inter-family harmonization effort. Tongkonan identity is placed vertically as a collective identity, while the identity of religion as a person-based social identity is placed horizontally. Both of these have consequences for the emergence of a cross-categorized identity.