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Author Keane, Webb, 1955-

Title Signs of recognition : powers and hazards of representation in an Indonesian society / Webb Keane
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 297 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 1. Introduction: Representation, Recognition, and Hazard -- 2. Geography, History, and Sociality -- 3. Things of Value -- 4. Loaded Terms -- 5. Text, Context, and Displacement -- 6. Voices, Agents, and Interlocutors -- 7. Formality and the Economy of Signs -- 8. Subjects and the Vicissitudes of Objects -- 9. Conclusion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-285) and index
Notes English
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Subject Anakalang (Indonesian people) -- Rites and ceremonies
Anakalang (Indonesian people) -- Social conditions
Anakalang (Indonesian people) -- Psychology
Social structure -- Indonesia -- Sumba Island
Interpersonal relations -- Indonesia -- Sumba Island
Representation (Philosophy)
Anakalang dialect -- Semantics
Anakalang dialect -- Discourse analysis
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Anakalang (Indonesian people) -- Psychology
Interpersonal relations
Manners and customs
Representation (Philosophy)
Social structure
Sociale structuur.
Representatie (algemeen)
SUBJECT Sumba Island (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs
Subject Indonesia -- Sumba Island
Sumba.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 96018064
ISBN 9780520917637
0520917634
0585106010
9780585106014
9780520204751
0520204751
9780520204744
0520204743