Nuaulu Settlement and Ecology : An Approach to the Environmental Relations of an Eastern Indonesian Community / Roy F. Ellen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellen, R. F., 1947- author.

Series:

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; Volume 83.

Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Series ; Volume 83

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuaulu (Indonesian people).

Land settlement--Indonesia--Ceram Island.

Land settlement.

Human ecology--Indonesia--Ceram Island.

Human ecology.

Ceram Island (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.

Ceram Island (Indonesia).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 265 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brill 1978

The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff, 1978.

Language Note:

Text in English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book is about the pattern of settlement and ecology of the Nuaulu, a group of sedentary swidden cultivators and hunters of southcentral Seram (Eastern Indonesia). It has three inter-related aims: to describe and account for nuaulu settlement; to outline and exemplify a suitable method of assessing the fine inter-action of cultural and ecological variables in small scale communities; and to explore the usefulness of a generative form of analysis in this respect. The fieldwork among the Nuaulu was undertaken between December 1969 and May 1971, and again for three months in 1973. After some basic introductory information, the analysis proceeds by first examining the residential component of the settlement patterns in terms of the processes which determine its location, form and composition. Next, the role of non-domesticated resources in local ecology and the processes of settlement generation in the domesticated component of the Nuaulu environment is investigated. In the final section the general theoretical and methodological issues raised in the introduction are examined in the light of the preceeding analysis.

Contents:

Chapter I. Ecology, generative analysis and settlement patterns

Chapter II. Nuaulu ethnography and envrionment

Chapter III. The location and structure of Nuaulu villages

Chapter IV. Non-domesticated resources and the ecology of settlement

Chapter V. Sources and social oorganization of cultivated land

Chapter VI. Site selection and garden preparation

Chapter VII. Garden development and ecological succession

Chapter VIII. Analyzing settlement: the wider relevance of the Nuaulu case

Appendices: A. Local climatic data and Nuaulu ecology

B. Local minerals and soils

C. A note on data collection relating to land holdings

D. Measurement of consumption and energy expenditure.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-242) and index.

Originally presented as the author's thesis, London.

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ISBN:

9789004287143

9004287140

OCLC:

571877310

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004287143 DOI

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access