02967oam 2200685 450 991015650110332120230422032038.090-04-28724-810.1163/9789004287242(CKB)2670000000575456(SSID)ssj0001489373(PQKBManifestationID)11842926(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001489373(PQKBWorkID)11453158(PQKB)10767185(OCoLC)9280251(OCoLC)8341476(nllekb)BRILL9789004287242(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39607(PPN)184918820(EXLCZ)99267000000057545619830215h19811981 uy 0engurun#---uuuuatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRindi an ethnographic study of a traditional domain in eastern Sumba /Gregory L. ForthBrill1981The Hague, Netherlands :Martinus Nijhoff,1981.1 online resource (xiii, 519 pages, [8] pages of plates) illustrationsVerhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ;93Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oxford.Print version: 9789024761692 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.The author describes Rindi culture within an analytic framework that illustrates connexions between, and common principles among, often apparently disparate realms of thought and action. The book contains chapters on the house; the village and the domain (an aggregate of villages); space and cosmos; religion (the notions \'hamangu\' and \'ndewa\'; divinity and the ancestors; the powers of the earth); the cycle of life and death; social order (class stratification; the division of authority; descent groups) and the system of asymmetric prescriptive alliance by which it is governed; marriage prestations and the various ways of contracting a marriage. The study is based on 22 months of fieldwork.Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde93.EthnologyIndonesiaSumba IslandManners and customsIndonesiaSumba IslandSumba Island (Indonesia)Social life and customsIndonesiaSumba IslandindonesiaBetelBride priceGenealogyMarapuPatrilinealityRatuSumbaVillageEthnologyManners and customs306.095986Forth Gregory L.653776NL-LeKBNL-LeKBUkMaJRUBOOK9910156501103321Rindi1149585UNINA