Dimitri Tsintjilonis

Biography

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 completing a book on the Sa'dan Toraja and planning a more comparative text on the anthropology of death.

Research Interest

Death, religion and ritual, Indigenous cosmologies, personhood, Sacred violence, Embodiment and the anthropology of the body