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Dualism and Hierarchy: Processes of Binary Combination in Keo Society (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) - Hardcover
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Society in the Keo region of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores reveals a pervasive pairing of villages, clans, and other groups. This work studies such pairing, using results from fieldwork conducted by the author over a period of fifteen years. It analyzes a form of society that has occupied anthropologists since the inception of their discipline--morphological dualism, or dual organization--and explores these issues through original ethnographic studies of numerous Keo domains and settlements.
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Gregory Forth is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta.
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Excellent ... incorporates a massive quantity of original ethnographic detail about a hitherto virtually unknown people. Theoretical formulations aside, this book would warrant appreciation simply as a work of descriptive ethnography. No significant detail of Keo social forms seems to have eluded the ethnographer's discerning eye. * Anthropos *
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0198234244
- ISBN 13 9780198234241
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages360
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Condition: very good. Oxford & New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. Hardbound. Dustjacket. xix, 341 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-331) and index. Synopsis : 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 - analyzes 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 classification 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. (Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology). Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780198234241. Keywords : , Keo (Indonesian people). Seller Inventory # 185312
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