Origins, ancestry and alliance : explorations in Austronesian ethnography /
Origins, ancestry and alliance : explorations in Austronesian ethnography /
edited by James J. Fox and Clifford Sather.
- 1 online resource
- Occasional paper of the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University. .
- Occasional paper of the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Hierarchy, founder ideology and Austronesian expansion / The elder and the younger -- foreign and autochthonous origin and hierarchy in the Cook Islands / Rank, hierarchy and routes of migration: chieftainship in the central Caroline Islands of Micronesia / "All threads are white": Iban egalitarianism reconsidered / Origin, hierarchy and egalitarianism among the Mandaya of Southeast Mindanao, Philippines / The transformation of progenitor lines of origin: patterns of precedence in eastern Indonesia / Origin structures and precedence in the social orders of Tana 'Ai and Sikka / Precedence among the domains of the three hearth stones / The founding of the house and the source of life: two complementary origin structures in Buru society / Histories of diversity, hierarchies of unity: the politics of origins in a south-west Moluccan Village / Rivals and wives: affinal politics and the Tongan ramage / The politics of marriage and the marriage of polities in Gowa, South Sula Wesi, during the 16th and 17th centuries / The cultural construction of rank, identity and ethnic origins in the Sulu Archipelago / James J. Fox -- Peter Bellwood -- Jukka Siikala -- Ken-ichi Sudo -- Clifford Sather -- Aram A. Yengoyan -- James J. Fox -- E.D. Lewis -- Michael P. Vischer -- Barbara Dix Grimes -- Sandra Pannell -- Aletta Biersack -- F. David Bulbeck -- Charles O. Frake.
"This collection of papers, the third in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project, explores indigenous Austronesian ideas of origin, ancestry and alliance and considers the comparative significance of these ideas in social practice. The papers examine social practice in a diverse range of societies extending from insular Southeast Asia to the islands of the Pacific."--Publisher's description
English.
1920942874 9781920942878
459399
22573/ctt2bcg07 JSTOR
Ethnology--Islands of the Pacific.
Ethnology--Southeast Asia.
Kinship--Islands of the Pacific.
Kinship--Southeast Asia.
Ethnic studies.
Social groups.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
Ethnology.
Kinship.
Manners and customs.
Islands of the Pacific--Social life and customs.
Southeast Asia--Social life and customs.
Pacific Ocean--Islands of the Pacific.
Southeast Asia.
Ethnography Kinship Social life Customs Islands of the pacific South east asia
Electronic books.
GN662 / .O75 2006
305.8
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Hierarchy, founder ideology and Austronesian expansion / The elder and the younger -- foreign and autochthonous origin and hierarchy in the Cook Islands / Rank, hierarchy and routes of migration: chieftainship in the central Caroline Islands of Micronesia / "All threads are white": Iban egalitarianism reconsidered / Origin, hierarchy and egalitarianism among the Mandaya of Southeast Mindanao, Philippines / The transformation of progenitor lines of origin: patterns of precedence in eastern Indonesia / Origin structures and precedence in the social orders of Tana 'Ai and Sikka / Precedence among the domains of the three hearth stones / The founding of the house and the source of life: two complementary origin structures in Buru society / Histories of diversity, hierarchies of unity: the politics of origins in a south-west Moluccan Village / Rivals and wives: affinal politics and the Tongan ramage / The politics of marriage and the marriage of polities in Gowa, South Sula Wesi, during the 16th and 17th centuries / The cultural construction of rank, identity and ethnic origins in the Sulu Archipelago / James J. Fox -- Peter Bellwood -- Jukka Siikala -- Ken-ichi Sudo -- Clifford Sather -- Aram A. Yengoyan -- James J. Fox -- E.D. Lewis -- Michael P. Vischer -- Barbara Dix Grimes -- Sandra Pannell -- Aletta Biersack -- F. David Bulbeck -- Charles O. Frake.
"This collection of papers, the third in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project, explores indigenous Austronesian ideas of origin, ancestry and alliance and considers the comparative significance of these ideas in social practice. The papers examine social practice in a diverse range of societies extending from insular Southeast Asia to the islands of the Pacific."--Publisher's description
English.
1920942874 9781920942878
459399
22573/ctt2bcg07 JSTOR
Ethnology--Islands of the Pacific.
Ethnology--Southeast Asia.
Kinship--Islands of the Pacific.
Kinship--Southeast Asia.
Ethnic studies.
Social groups.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
Ethnology.
Kinship.
Manners and customs.
Islands of the Pacific--Social life and customs.
Southeast Asia--Social life and customs.
Pacific Ocean--Islands of the Pacific.
Southeast Asia.
Ethnography Kinship Social life Customs Islands of the pacific South east asia
Electronic books.
GN662 / .O75 2006
305.8