The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
A study of Nuaulu cultural resilience
The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
A study of Nuaulu cultural resilience
"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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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.