Rindi : an ethnographic study of a traditional domain in eastern Sumba /

Rindi : an ethnographic study of a traditional domain in eastern Sumba /

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Author / Creator:	Forth, Gregory.
Imprint:	The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff, 1981.
Description:	1 electronic resource (xiii, 519 pages, [8] pages of plates).
Language:	English
Series:	Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 93 Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 93.
Subject:	Ethnology -- Indonesia -- Sumba Island. Ethnology. Manners and customs. Sumba Island (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs. Indonesia -- Sumba Island.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11780496

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ISBN:	9024761697 9789004287242 9004287248 9789024761692
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oxford. Includes indexes. Bibliography: pages [499]-506. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
Summary:	The author describes Rindi culture within an analytic framework that illustrates connexions between, and common principles among, often apparently disparate realms of thought and action. The book contains chapters on the house; the village and the domain (an aggregate of villages); space and cosmos; religion (the notions \'hamangu\' and \'ndewa\'; divinity and the ancestors; the powers of the earth); the cycle of life and death; social order (class stratification; the division of authority; descent groups) and the system of asymmetric prescriptive alliance by which it is governed; marriage prestations and the various ways of contracting a marriage. The study is based on 22 months of fieldwork.
Other form:	Print version: Rindi The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff, 1981. 9024761697 (pbk.)
Standard no.:	10.1163/9789004287242.

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Item Description:	Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oxford. Includes indexes.
Physical Description:	1 electronic resource (xiii, 519 pages, [8] pages of plates).
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:	Bibliography: pages [499]-506.
ISBN:	9024761697 9789004287242 9004287248 9789024761692