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Stresses that in some tourism studies, local agency has been overlooked. The case study reveals how Torajans with different backgrounds and for varied aims have drawn on tourism and their "heritage arts" to pursue greater authority and power. Sheds light on the intersection of tourism development and uneven power in Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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This page is a summary of: Art as Politics: Re-Crafting Identities, Tourism, and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia by Kathleen M. Adams, American Ethnologist, November 2008, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00109.x.
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