Rindi : an ethnographic study of a traditional domain in eastern Sumba / Gregory L. Forth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forth, Gregory.

Series:

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 93.

VKI E-Book Collection, Vols. 1-100, ISBN: 9789004287013.

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 93

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Indonesia--Sumba Island.

Ethnology.

Manners and customs.

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

Sumba Island (Indonesia).

Indonesia--Sumba Island.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 519 pages, [8] pages of plates) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff, 1981.

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 indexes.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 499-506).

Other Format:

Online version: Forth, Gregory L. Rindi.

ISBN:

9789004287242

OCLC:

9280251

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004287242 DOI

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.