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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 / 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 Sula Wesi, 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.

"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

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