Flow of Life - Essays on Eastern Indonesia Book

Introduction

James J. Fox

Part One: Marriage, Alliance, and Exchange

1. Principles and Variations in the Structure of Sumbanese Society

Rodney Needham

2. The Marriage Nexus among the Manggarai of West Flores

John L. Gordon

3. Concordance, Structure, and Variation:
Considerations of Alliance in Kédang

Robert H. Barnes

4. Obligation and Alliance: State Structure and Moiety Organization in Thie, Roti

James J. Fox

5. The Social Organization of the Ema of Timor

Brigitte Clamagirand

6. Descent, Alliance, and Exchange Ideology among the Makassae of East Timor

Shepard Forman

7. Notes on the Meaning of Marriage Prestations among the Huaulu of Seram

Valerto Valeri

Part Two: Systems of Social and Symbolic Classification

8. The Significance of Livestock on Sumba

L. Onvlee

(Translated from the Dutch by James J. Fox and Heriny Fokker-Bakker)

9. Structural Aspects of East Sumbanese Art

Marie Jeanne Adams

10. The Order and Significance of the Savunese House

N. L. Kana

(Translated from the Indonesian by James J. Fox)

11. The Symbolic Classification of the Atoni of Timor

H. G. Schulte Nordholt

12. Incursions upon Wehali: A Modern History of an Ancient Empire

Gérard Francillon

13. Boiled Woman and Broiled Man: Myths and Agricultural Rituals of the Bunaq of Central Timor

Claude Friedsero

(Translated from the French by Elizabeth Traube)

14. Mambai Rituals of Black and White

Elizabeth Traube

Part Three: Eastern Indonesia as a Field of Ethnological Study

15. The Concept of the Field of Ethnological Study

P. E. de Josselin de Jong

16. Models and Metaphors: Comparative Research in Eastern Indonesia

James J. Fox

Notes

References

Index