Boekhandel Douwes Den Haag

The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

Kinship, population and social reproduction in the 'new Indonesia'

A study of Nuaulu cultural resilience

Roy (The University of Canterbury, UK) Ellen

Kinship, population and social reproduction in the 'new Indonesia'

The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

Kinship, population and social reproduction in the 'new Indonesia'

A study of Nuaulu cultural resilience

The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia: Kinship, population and social reproduction in the 'new Indonesia'

 

"Nuaulu people on the Indonesian island of Seram have displayed remarkable linguistic and cultural resilience over a period of 50 years. In 1970 their language and traditional culture was widely considered 'endangered.'


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Beschrijving The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia: Kinship, population and social reproduction in the 'new Indonesia'

This book examines how kinship organization and marriage patterns have responded to challenges, and suggests that the retention of core institutions of descent and exchange are the consequence of population growth, which has enabled ritual reproduction, and thereby maintained a distinct identity in relation to the surrounding majority culture.


ISBN
9781138493872
Pagina's
220
Verschenen
Serie
The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
Rubriek
Algemene sociale wetenschappen
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Taylor & Francis Ltd

Algemene sociale wetenschappen