Origins, ancestry and alliance
Subtitle: explorations in Austronesian ethnography
By: edited by James J. Fox and Clifford Sather.
Contributors: Fox, James J., 1940-; Sather, Clifford.; Australian National University. Dept. of Anthropology.; Aystralian National University. Comparative Austronesian Project.
Publisher: Dept. of Anthropology, Australian National University
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Ethnology -- Oceania; Ethnology -- Southeast Asia; Kinship -- Oceania; Kinship -- Asia, Southeastern; Oceania -- Social life and customs; Southeast Asia -- Social life and customs
Other titles: Explorations in Austronesian ethnography
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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / James J. Fox; title: Hierarchy, founder ideology and Austronesian expansion / Peter Bellwood; title: The elder and the younger, foreign and autochthonous origin and hierarchy in the Cook Islands / Jukka Siikala; title: Rank, hierarchy and routes of migration : chieftainship in the central Caroline Islands of Micronesia / Ken-ichi Sudo; title: "All threads are white" : Iban egalitarianism reconsidered / Clifford Sather; title: Origin, hierarchy and egalitarianism among the Mandaya of southeast Mindanao, Philippines / Aram A. Yengoyan; title: The transformation of progenitor lines of origin : patterns of precedence in eastern Indonesia / James J. Fox; title: Origin structures and precedence in the social orders of Tana'ai and Sikka / E.D. Lewis; title: 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; title: The founding of the house and the source of life : two complementary origin structures in Buru society / Barbara Dix Grimes; title: Histories of diversity, hierarchies of unity : the politics of origins in a south-west Moluccan village / Sandra Pannell; title: Rivals and wives : affinal politics and the Tongan Ramage / Aletta Biersack; title: The politics of marriage and the marriage of polities in Gowa, South Sulawesi, during the 16th and 17th centuries / F. David Bulbeck; title: The cultural construction of rank, identity and ethnic origins in the Sulu archipelago / Charles O. Frake.