The Tread of Life: Toraja Reflections on the Life Cycle, by Douglas W. Hollan

"This is an enjoyably readable and generally illuminating look at the more intimate side of Toraja life and relationships.... [It is] an innovative approach to ethnography, valuable in its attempt to deal with aspects of life that are often passed over in more conventional ethnographic writing." --Journal of Asian Studies

"The Thread of Life is a sensitive and highly readable portrayal of Toraja lives that will be of interest to all concerned with the human life cycle, but especially to anthropologists, psychologists, Indonesianists, and Southeast Asianists." - Publisher's description.