Nuaulu settlement and ecology : an approach to the environmental relations of an eastern Indonesian community / / Roy F. Ellen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910156502103321
• Autore: Ellen R. F. <1947->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Brill, 1978; The Hague : , : Martinus Nijhoff, , 1978
• ISBN: 90-04-28714-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 265 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Collana: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; ; 83
• Disciplina: 959.84
• Soggetti: Nuaulu (Indonesian people); Human ecology; Land settlement; Manners and customs; Ceram Island (Indonesia) Social life and customs; Indonesia Ceram Island
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally presented as the author's thesis, London.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-242) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter I. Ecology, generative analysis and settlement patterns -- Chapter II. Nuaulu ethnography and envrionment -- Chapter III. The location and structure of Nuaulu villages -- Chapter IV. Non-domesticated resources and the ecology of settlement -- Chapter V. Sources and social oorganization of cultivated land -- Chapter VI. Site selection and garden preparation -- Chapter VII. Garden development and ecological succession -- Chapter VIII. Analyzing settlement: the wider relevance of the Nuaulu case -- Appendices: A. Local climatic data and Nuaulu ecology -- B. Local minerals and soils -- C. A note on data collection relating to land holdings -- D. Measurement of consumption and energy expenditure.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is about the pattern of settlement and ecology of the Nuaulu, a group of sedentary swidden cultivators and hunters of southcentral Seram (Eastern Indonesia). It has three inter-related aims: to describe and account for nuaulu settlement; to outline and exemplify a suitable method of assessing the fine inter-action of cultural and ecological ; variables in small scale communities; and to explore the usefulness of a generative form of analysis in this respect. The fieldwork among the Nuaulu was undertaken between December 1969 and May 1971, and again for three months in 1973. After some basic introductory information, the analysis proceeds by first examining the residential component of the settlement patterns in terms of the processes which determine its location, form and composition. Next, the role of non-domesticated resources in local ecology and the processes of settlement generation in the domesticated component of the Nuaulu environment is investigated. In the final section the general theoretical and methodological issues raised in the introduction are examined in the light of the preceeding analysis.