Dualism and Hierarchy: Processes of Binary Combination in Keo Society

ISBN-13: 9780198234241 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 368 str.

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Opis

Society in the Keo region of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores reveals a pervasive pairing of villages, clans, and other groups. This work studies such pairing, using results from fieldwork conducted by the author over a period of fifteen years. It analyzes a form of society that has occupied anthropologists since the inception of their discipline--morphological dualism, or dual organization--and explores these issues through original ethnographic studies of numerous Keo domains and settlements.

Recenzje

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.