ISBN:
9789004287242
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9024761697
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9789024761692
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 519 p., [8] pages of plates)
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ill
Series Statement:
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 93
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Forth, Gregory L Rindi
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Forth, Gregory L Rindi
Keywords:
Ethnology
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Indonesia ; Sumba Island
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Ethnology
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Manners and customs
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Sumba Island (Indonesia) Social life and customs
Abstract:
The author describes Rindi culture within an analytic framework that illustrates connexions between, and common principles among, often apparently disparate realms of thought and action. The book contains chapters on the house; the village and the domain (an aggregate of villages); space and cosmos; religion (the notions \'hamangu\' and \'ndewa\'; divinity and the ancestors; the powers of the earth); the cycle of life and death; social order (class stratification; the division of authority; descent groups) and the system of asymmetric prescriptive alliance by which it is governed; marriage prestations and the various ways of contracting a marriage. The study is based on 22 months of fieldwork
Note:
Available to subscribing member institutions only
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oxford
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Includes indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 499-506)
DOI:
10.1163/9789004287242
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