Play of Time Kodi Perspectives on Calendars, History, and Exchange

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About the author

Janet Hoskins is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California.

Summary

Based on three years of field work with the Kodi people of Sumba, Indonesia, this ethnographical study focuses on Kodi calendar rituals, exchange transactions and confrontations with the historical forces of the colonial and postcolonial world.

Product details

• Authors: Hoskins Janet, Janet Hoskins, J. Hoskins
• Assisted by: Janet Hoskins (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.04.1997
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780520208926
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20892-6
• Pages: 440
• Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Indonesia, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence