As the semester wraps up and I check over my blog submissions for the Archaeology of Death, I can't help but wonder how this class has affected me during the semester. I instantly recalled how frustrated I was while doing research for the Tana Toraja magazine project my group recently finished...which is here if anyone would like to check that out. Now, my frustration had nothing to do with the project (well maybe some...) but with the common responses I was finding in association with Torajan burial practices. For those who don't know, Torajans exhume and redress their dead a few times after they're buried as a form of respect to the deceased...which is clearly not something currently practiced in most societies. What really bothered me was the comments from tourists who had visited the group solely to witness their death rituals. Here's my authors note from my article..,
