Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 182 S
Series Statement:
Viking Fund publications in anthropology 29
DDC:
572.959
Keywords:
Ethnology Southeast Asia
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Südostasien
;
Sozialstruktur
;
Sozialanthropologie
Abstract:
Growing out of a symposium which G. P. Murdock convened at the Ninth Pacific Science Congress in 1957, this book presents important new developments in the typology and theory of kin groups. Nine ethnographic papers provide data on 13 separate social systems, six systems being described in two papers on the Formosan aborigines. The papers and their authors are: “The Mnong Gar of Central Vietnam” (Georges Condominas), “The Sagada Igorots of Northern Luzon” (Fred Eggan), “The Eastern Subanun of Mindanao” (Charles 0. Frake), “The Iban of Western Borneo” (J. D. Freeman), “The Javanese of South Central Java” (R. M. Koentjaraningrat), “The Sinhalese of the Dry Zone of Northern Ceylon” (E. R. Leach), “The Aboriginal Peoples of Formosa” (Toichi Mabuchi), “Supplementary Notes on the Formosan Aborigines” (Wei Hwei-lin), “The Magpie Miao of Southern Szechuan” (Ruey Yih-fu). Although each paper reflects the approach and interests of its author, none fails to provide information on family and descent group structure, principles of residence and inheritance, and kinship terminology. All of these papers are clearly written and analytically sophisticated, Quite apart from kin group theory, they make a major contribution to the ethnology of Southeast Asia.
URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2049987
URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2049987
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