Social justice requires a constant negotiation of the balance between the domestic domain of kinship and marriage, the cosmological domain of human relations with the nonhuman world, the political domain of power and authority, and the religious domain of human relations with the transcendental world of divinity. The domestic and cosmological domains are governed by symbolic schemes that draw on local sources of concrete experience, while the political and religious domains are governed by symbolic schemes that draw on abstract symbolic schemes that were often developed in remote times and places. In this paper I outline the way Makassar conceptions of social justice have changed as the relationship between these domains have undergone a series of transformations due to events such as religious conversion, colonial occupation, national liberation, and economic globalization. The paper outlines nine successive models of social justice, each of which was dominant for about two or three generations. All of these models remain available to social actors in the present through a vibrant heritage of oral, ritual, and textual traditions. Social actors draw on these models to evaluate the justice of current social arrangements and to imagine alternatives to them.
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