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explorations in Austronesian ethnography

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Origins, ancestry and alliance: explorations in Austronesian ethnography
1996, Dept. of Anthropology, Australian National University
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Table of 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 : 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Part of the Comparative Austronesian Project, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University ..."
"A majority of the papers in the volume were initially presented at a conference of the Comparative Austronesian Project"--P. viii.

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Other Titles
Explorations in Austronesian ethnography

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305.8/0099
Library of Congress
GN662 .O75 1996

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viii, 336 p. :
Number of pages
336

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OL754328M
Internet Archive
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0731524322
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97149509
OCLC/WorldCat
36703710
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