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Dualism and Hierarchy C

Processes of Binary Combination in Keo Society

Autor: Gregory Forth

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Editura: Oxford University Press

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Society in the Keo region of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores reveals a pervasive pairing of...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Gregory Forth

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2001

Pagini

360

EAN

9780198234241

ISBN

0198234244

Enbook ID

04523607

Editura

Oxford University Press

Greutate

774

Dimensiuni

162 x 240 x 26

Descriere completă

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 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. 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.