Dualism and Hierarchy C - Processes of Binary Combination in Keo Society

Zusatztext Excellent ... incorporates a massive quantity of original ethnographic detail about a hitherto virtually unknown people. Theoretical formulations aside! this book would warrant appreciation simply as a work of descriptive ethnography. No significant detail of Keo social forms seems to have eluded the ethnographer's discerning eye. Klappentext Based on anthropological research conducted over a number of years on the Indonesian island of Flores, this is the first published account of a people called Keo. Keo society reveals a pervasive pairing of villages, clans, and other groups. The book explores this dualistic social organization in relation to marriage, reciprocity, and sacrificial ritual. In doing so, it offers important insights into issues of kinship and social inequality. Zusammenfassung Society in the Keo region of the Indonesian island of Flores reveals a pervasive pairing of villages, clans, and other groups. This study - deriving from fieldwork conducted by the author over 15 years - analyzes a form of society known as morphological dualism, or dual organization.

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• Authors: Gregory Forth, Gregory L. Forth, FORTH GREGORY
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2001
• EAN: 9780198234241
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823424-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Oxford Studies in Social and C
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social groups, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, Indonesia, Social groups, communities and identities