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The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia
Indonesia east of Bali is perhaps the least known of all major cultural areas of Southeast Asia. Yet the anthropology of the region has long held a prominent place in the development of structuralist theories of marital exchange and symbolic classification. Falling in a distinguished lineage running from van Wouden to Lévi-Strauss to Rodney Needham, The Flow of Life presents a comprehensive set of essays by a distinguished group of international scholars, which provides both a full picture of this culturally rich area and an important extension of earlier structuralist theory. This volume is bound to become the standard source on the social anthropology of eastern Indonesia. But it is a work of more than regional significance, providing a variety of empirical resources to address the questions which lie at the bottom of much structuralist thought about mind and society: what is the nature of symbolic thought? how does consciousness intertwine with society and ecology? what is the difference between “primitive” and “modern” society?
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The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia
Indonesia east of Bali is perhaps the least known of all major cultural areas of Southeast Asia. Yet the anthropology of the region has long held a prominent place in the development of structuralist theories of marital exchange and symbolic classification. Falling in a distinguished lineage running from van Wouden to Lévi-Strauss to Rodney Needham, The Flow of Life presents a comprehensive set of essays by a distinguished group of international scholars, which provides both a full picture of this culturally rich area and an important extension of earlier structuralist theory. This volume is bound to become the standard source on the social anthropology of eastern Indonesia. But it is a work of more than regional significance, providing a variety of empirical resources to address the questions which lie at the bottom of much structuralist thought about mind and society: what is the nature of symbolic thought? how does consciousness intertwine with society and ecology? what is the difference between “primitive” and “modern” society?
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The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia

The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia

Overview

Indonesia east of Bali is perhaps the least known of all major cultural areas of Southeast Asia. Yet the anthropology of the region has long held a prominent place in the development of structuralist theories of marital exchange and symbolic classification. Falling in a distinguished lineage running from van Wouden to Lévi-Strauss to Rodney Needham, The Flow of Life presents a comprehensive set of essays by a distinguished group of international scholars, which provides both a full picture of this culturally rich area and an important extension of earlier structuralist theory. This volume is bound to become the standard source on the social anthropology of eastern Indonesia. But it is a work of more than regional significance, providing a variety of empirical resources to address the questions which lie at the bottom of much structuralist thought about mind and society: what is the nature of symbolic thought? how does consciousness intertwine with society and ecology? what is the difference between “primitive” and “modern” society?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674331891
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 04/03/2014
Series: Harvard Studies in Cultural Anthropology , #2
Edition description: Reprint 2014
Pages: 380
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.88(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Fox James J. :

James J. Fox is Professorial Fellow of Anthropology and Honorary Associate in Southeast Asian Ethnology, Australian National University.

Table of Contents

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

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