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Title Origins, ancestry and alliance : explorations in Austronesian ethnography / edited by James J. Fox and Clifford Sather
Published Canberra : ANU E Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource
Series Occasional paper of the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University
Occasional paper of the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University.
Contents Introduction / James J. Fox -- Hierarchy, founder ideology and Austronesian expansion / Peter Bellwood -- The elder and the younger -- foreign and autochthonous origin and hierarchy in the Cook Islands / Jukka Siikala -- Rank, hierarchy and routes of migration: chieftainship in the central Caroline Islands of Micronesia / Ken-ichi Sudo -- "All threads are white": Iban egalitarianism reconsidered / Clifford Sather -- Origin, hierarchy and egalitarianism among the Mandaya of Southeast Mindanao, Philippines / Aram A. Yengoyan -- The transformation of progenitor lines of origin: patterns of precedence in eastern Indonesia / James J. Fox -- Origin structures and precedence in the social orders of Tana 'Ai and Sikka / E.D. Lewis -- Precedence among the domains of the three hearth stones / Michael P. Vischer -- The founding of the house and the source of life: two complementary origin structures in Buru society / Barbara Dix Grimes -- Histories of diversity, hierarchies of unity: the politics of origins in a south-west Moluccan Village / Sandra Pannell -- Rivals and wives: affinal politics and the Tongan ramage / Aletta Biersack -- The politics of marriage and the marriage of polities in Gowa, South Sula Wesi, during the 16th and 17th centuries / F. David Bulbeck -- The cultural construction of rank, identity and ethnic origins in the Sulu Archipelago / Charles O. Frake
Summary "This collection of papers, the third in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project, explores indigenous Austronesian ideas of origin, ancestry and alliance and considers the comparative significance of these ideas in social practice. The papers examine social practice in a diverse range of societies extending from insular Southeast Asia to the islands of the Pacific."--Publisher's description
Analysis Ethnography
Kinship
Social life
Customs
Islands of the pacific
South east asia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Ethnology -- Islands of the Pacific
Ethnology -- Southeast Asia.
Kinship -- Islands of the Pacific
Kinship -- Southeast Asia
Ethnology -- Oceania.
Kinship -- Oceania
Ethnic studies.
Social groups.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Ethnology
Kinship
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Islands of the Pacific -- Social life and customs
Southeast Asia -- Social life and customs
Oceania -- Social life and customs
Subject Oceania
Pacific Ocean -- Islands of the Pacific
Southeast Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Sather, Clifford.
Fox, James J., 1940-
Australian National University. Department of Anthropology.
Australian National University. Comparative Austronesian Project.
ISBN 1920942874
9781920942878