Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part One. Marriage, Alliance, and Exchange
5. 1 Principles and Variations in the Structure of Sumbanese Society 21
6. 2 The Marriage Nexus among the Manggarai of West Flores 48
7. 3 Concordance, Structure, and Variation: Considerations of Alliance in Kédang 68
8. 5 The Social Organization of the Erna of Timor 134
9. 6 Descent, Alliance, and Exchange Ideology among the Makassae of East Timor 152
10. 7 Notes on the Meaning of Marriage Prestations among the Huaulu of Seram 178
11. Part Two. Systems of Social and Symbolic Classification
12. 8 The Significance of Livestock on Sumba 195
13. 9 Structural Aspects of East Sumbanese Art 208
14. 10 The Order and Significance of the Savunese House 221
15. 11 The Symbolic Classification of the Atoni of Timor 231
16. 12 Incursions upon Wehali: A Modern History of an Ancient Empire 248
17. 13 Boiled Woman and Broiled Man: Myths and Agricultural Rituals of the Bunaq of Central Timor 266
18. 14 Mambai Rituals of Black and White 290
19. Part Three. Eastern Indonesia as a Field of Ethnological Study
20. 15 The Concept of the Field of Ethnological Study 317
21. 16 Models and Metaphors: Comparative Research in Eastern Indonesia 327
22. Notes 335
23. References 357
24. Index 366