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Rindi : an ethnographic study of a traditional domain in eastern Sumba / Gregory L. Forth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forth, Gregory, author.
- Series:
- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 93.
- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 93
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Indonesia--Sumba Island.
- Ethnology.
- Manners and customs--Indonesia--Sumba Island.
- Manners and customs.
- Sumba Island (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.
- Sumba Island (Indonesia).
- Indonesia--Sumba Island.
- Indonesia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 519 pages, [8] pages of plates) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Brill 1981
- The Hague, Netherlands : Martinus Nijhoff, 1981.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oxford.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported. CC BY-NC 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
- Description based on print record, CIP data from the publisher, and e-publication e-publication, viewed on October 27, 2020.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 90-04-28724-8
- OCLC:
- 9280251
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004287242 DOI
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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