Tongkonan Social Identity: Families Harmonization on Interfaith Marriage in Toraja
Penulis/Author
Muhammad Fath Mashuri (1); Prof. Dr. Avin Fadilla Helmi, M.Si. (2)
Tanggal/Date
2 2019
Kata Kunci/Keyword
Abstrak/Abstract
The purpose of this article is to analyze how married couples of different faiths in Toraja harmonize their differences from the perspective of social identity. Interfaith marriage can be called a meeting of inter-social identities specifically within the context of family. It is therefore an indispensable part of the process for every
interfaith marriage couple to de-categorize and re-categorize and consolidate their social identity as a couple so that they can successfully define their new family values. This reseach used an ethnographic approach with three interfaith families in Toraja as a unit of analysis. The results show that these married couples
operationalize a dual-hierarchical identity model in an inter-family harmonization effort. Tongkonan identity is placed vertically as a collective identity, while the identity of religion as a person-based
social identity is placed horizontally. Both of these have consequences for the emergence of a cross-categorized identity
