Anthropology 2272F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: East Nusa Tenggara, Ngadha Language, 1997 Asian Financial Crisis

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 2272F/G
• Professor: Sherry Larkin

Document Summary

Tourism, culture and development chapter 3: placi(cid:374)g ngadha"s touris(cid:373) develop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t i(cid:374) Development in indonesia: three focuses have shaped life in ngadha villages: the state, the church, and the ancestors. Indonesian culture is highly collectivistic and group oriented. All members of ngadha society belong to a named house: the unity between past and present generations is maintained through rituals and particularly through sacrifice, adat: means custom or tradition but it is far more all-encompassing. It is essentially a religious concept, in the sense that it refers to a social order founded by the ancestors to an unchangeable cosmic order: means consensus, a state of equilibrium, and it means order. Wider glo(cid:271)al a(cid:374)d natio(cid:374)al politi(cid:272)al age(cid:374)das a(cid:374)d their i(cid:373)pa(cid:272)t o(cid:374) ngadha"s touris(cid:373) Tourism and development in less economically developed countries: the rapid development of tourism in less developed countries has not been without problems: excess foreign dependency, the reinforcement of socio-economic and spatial inequalities, environmental destruction and rising cultural alienation.