Farewell Party for Granny Kapa
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
The burial ritual for Granny Kapa involved 400 residents, a month’s preparation, and costs around Rp1 billion.
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THE temperature dropped to 15 degrees Celsius as the thick fog engulfed the Saluallo hamlet, South Sulawesi, one early morning at the end of last June. A dozen or so family members were still sound asleep, when Rachael Manting, 62, hurried to the kitchen, located behind the lantang (a temporary bamboo structure) where she was staying. In the kitchen, Manting’s sisters, aunts and cousins had already gathered to cook the pig which had been slaugh
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