We are at a mountaintop cemetery in the village of Pangala in North Toraja, a regency of South Sulawesi in Indonesia, witnessing ma’nene, a ritual to pay homage to ancestors, which takes place ...

In the Ma’nene ritual, Torajan families raise their loved ones from the grave to tend to them and remember them. To post a photo of a corpse of granddad on facebook might be shocking to us.