| Description |
viii, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
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[Occasional paper of the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University] |
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Occasional paper of the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University.
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| 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 -- |
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Precedence among the domains of the three hearth stones : contestation of an order of precedence in the Ko'a ceremonial cycle (Palu'é Island, Eastern Indonesia) / 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 Sulawesi, 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 |
| Notes |
"A publication of the Department of Anthropology as part of the Comparative Austronesian Project, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University, Canberra ACT Australia" |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available in an electronic version via the World Wide Web |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Southeast Asia.
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Ethnology -- Islands of the Pacific.
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Ethnology -- Oceania.
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Kinship -- Southeast Asia.
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Kinship -- Islands of the Pacific.
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Kinship -- Oceania.
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| SUBJECT |
Asia, Southeastern -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117018
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Islands of the Pacific http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068616 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
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Oceania -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116423
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| Author |
Fox, James J., 1940-
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Sather, Clifford.
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Australian National University. Department of Anthropology.
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Comparative Austronesian Project
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| LC no. |
97149509 |
| ISBN |
0731524322 |
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