Timothy Asch (1932-1994) was probably the greatest ethnographic filmmaker of the latter 20th century, and one of the best-known anthropologists of his generation. This title provides a biographical overview of Asch's life and a guide to his aims and ideas, methodology and major projects.
Timothy Asch (1932-1994) was probably the greatest ethnographic filmmaker of the latter 20th century, and one of the best-known anthropologists of his...
The Stranger-Kings of Sikka is the first monographic study of an origin myth and history of an indigenous eastern Indonesian state and the first contemporary ethnography of the Ata Sikka of Flores. The book will be of interest to anthropologists, ethnologists of Austronesia, historians and political scientists whose interests include Southeast Asia. During the 1920s, in the regency of Sikka on the island of Flores, D.D. Pareira Kondi and A. Boer Pareira, two notable men among the first literate Sikkanese, began writing about the history and culture of their people. Among their many...
The Stranger-Kings of Sikka is the first monographic study of an origin myth and history of an indigenous eastern Indonesian state and the firs...
