School of Social and Political Science

Background

Dimitri Tsintjilonis has been carrying out fieldwork among the Sa'dan Toraja of Indonesia (South Sulawesi) over a number of years, concentrating at first on mortuary rites and indigenous notions of personhood, but focusing more recently on religious change and 'the politics' of conversion. Within Indonesia, he has also carried out research in Bali and is hoping to undertake more fieldwork in Central Sulawesi. He is currently working on a new project in Greece - a project focusing on Orthodox Christianity and the significance of the Devil.

Selected publications

2019 '"The past is a promise to the future": stories, persons, and the devil in Greece', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 25(1): 148-165

2007 'The Death-Bearing Senses in Tana Toraja', Ethnos, 72(2): 173-194

2006 ‘Monsters and Caricatures: spirit-possession in Tana Toraja’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 12: 551-567

2004 ‘Words of Intimacy: re-membering the dead in Buntao’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 10(2): 375-393

2004 'The flow of life in Buntao: Southeast Asian animism re-considered', Bijdragen tot de Taal-Land en Volkenkunde, 160(4): 425-455

2000 'Death and the Sacrifice of Signs: "Measuring" the Dead in Tana Toraja', Oceania, 71 (1): 1-17

2000 'A Head for the Dead: Sacred Violence in Tana Toraja', Archipel, 59 (1): 27-50