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Dualism and Hierarchy: Processes of Binary Combination in Keo Society

Door Gregory Forth

Categorie	Algemeen wetenschap
Boeknummer	#380654-UC5
Titel	Dualism and Hierarchy: Processes of Binary Combination in Keo Society
Auteur	Forth, Gregory
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Delhi etc. : Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2001
ISBN10	0198234244
ISBN13	9780198234241
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Society in the Keo region of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores reveals a pervasive pairing of villages, clans, and other groups. Apart from introducing a hitherto undescribed population, this study, deriving from fieldwork conducted by the author over a period of 15 years, analyses a form of society that has occupied anthropologists since the inception of their discipline: morphological dualism, or dual organization. Drawing on a notion of encompassment inspired by Dumont's theory of 'hierarchy', the author interprets dualistic social forms as products of a continuous process of combination and a tendency to create binary wholes through the partial assimilation of junior by senior partners. While Keo exemplifies a variant of a widespread eastern Indonesian pattern of binary classific... (Lees verder)ation and asymmetric marriage alliance, the analysis shows how Keo morphological dualism cannot be reduced to the categories of a dual classification nor to unique or exclusive forms of reciprocity or functional complementarity. Exploring these issues through original ethnographic studies of numerous Keo domains and settlements, the book is of critical relevance not just to dualism, but to a variety of continuing concerns in contemporary social anthropology, including the concept of 'descent', the social construction of inequality, and connections between ritual practice (especially animal sacrifice), and social order.
Pagina's	376
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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