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205 Appendix 1: Checklist of Open Interview Topics This checklist is taken largely from Levy (1973, 509–511), who devised it in part from a question schedule used by the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley. 1. Locating data: name; birth date; birthplace; description of childhood house; childhood eating customs; languages and literacy; movements; schooling; travel. 2. Childhood household: members at various ages; sibling pattern; sleeping arrangement; caretaking agents for subject; time spent in and out of household; alternate households. 3. Nature of household relations (adult-adult, adult-children, childrenchildren ); leadership; quarrels; conflict resolution. 4. Data on significant caretakers: family background; where born; movements; languages; special statuses; illnesses; involvement and special roles in religion; death. 5. Responses to significant caretakers: evaluation; interaction pattern. 6. Patterns of identification: self compared to significant adults; special qualities of family; special qualities of ancestors; heroes; negative role models. 7. Early learning in family: nursing; weaning; excretion training; discipline and teaching patterns; familial values. 8. Childhood play: with whom; how chosen; activities; conflicts; special roles in play group; solitary play. 9. Evaluation of childhood. 10. Special circumstances of childhood, including illnesses. 11. Puberty and adolescence: age at beginning; signs of transition; nature of transition; associations; relations with household; major concerns; ideas about the future; sexual life; religious life; formal and informal learning ; transition to adulthood; evaluation. 12. History of occupations and special roles. 13. Present associations: with whom; length; activities; nature of the relationship; quality of relations with neighbors, relatives, villagers; enemies. 206 Appendix 1 14. Stress: illnesses; theory of illness; energy/fatigue; headaches; eating problems; sleep difficulties; irritability; depression; caused fear; anxiety; altered consciousness; suicidal ideas; experience with healers; major mental illness. 15. Aggression: causes, objects, frequency of anger; associated feelings ; actions taken; evaluation and interpretation. 16. Moral controls: nature of forbidden desires; why not acted on; results of wrongdoing; moral principles. 17. Religion and the spiritual: present involvement; development of involvement; private uses of religion. 18. Death: interpretations of and reactions to own death and death of others. 19. Dreams: frequency; examples of significant, recurring, and recent dreams; interpretation; theory of dreaming. 20. Drinking: frequency; interpretations and evaluations. 21. Spouse relationship: history; why chosen; evaluation; nature of the relationship; personal meanings of the relationship; conflict resolution. 22. Attitudes about gender roles: evaluation of male/female roles; interpretation of male/female differences; jealousy; romantic love. 23. Physical sexuality: play intercourse; onset of sexual feelings; sexual preferences; masturbation; nocturnal dreams and nocturnal orgasms; partners ; frequencies; idea of orgasm; evaluations and meanings. 24. Reactions, interpretations, and evaluations of menarche, menstruation , menopause, childbirth. 25. Own children: meanings and evaluations, socialization goals and techniques. 26. Self: self-evaluation; self-disapproval; things to change; shifting selves; qualities of identity. 27. Past: evaluation of past, of ancestors, of the Toraja past. 28. Future: plans and expectations for the future; proposed actions; attitudes and expectations about aging. 29. Community identity: evaluations and interpretations of Toraja, of other groups. 30. Participation in specific cultural activities: scarification; supercision ; kickfights; spirit possession; rituals; etc. ...

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