Rice, Rupees, and Ritual: Economy and Society Among the Samosir Batak of Sumatra

22x14cm, xv,366 pp Contents: Environment & History: Deceptive Appearances: Environment, Demography, & Agricultural Change; History & Change; Sociocultural Effects of Colonial Penetration: Ethnohistory, Inequality, & Contemporary Village Politics; Bius: Religious Conflict & Accomodation; Ritual Expressions of Values & the Feasting System; Agriculture & Trade: The Agricultural Cycle &the Cycle of Wants; The Ecology & Ethnology of Batak Grassland Farming; Marketing, Credit & Investment; Access to Resources: Labor & Land in Interpreting the Economy: Age & Gender Differentials in the Work Force; Modes of Labor Mobilization; Ownership, Care, & Values of Livestock; Landholding & Transference; Modeling Samosir Batak Economy: Reciprocity & Spheres of Exchange in Batak Economy; Change & Persistence in the Worldview of Samosir Villagers; Appendices: Methods of Data Gathering; Means of Measurement & Their Margins of Error; Regulations Promulgated at a Church-Sanctioned Feast; Rice Growing Statistics. Minor rubbing. Some slight page-edge soil. VG., dustwrapper.…