Origins, Ancestry and Alliance

Exploration in Austronesian Ethnography

James J. Fox, Clifford Sather, James J. Fox, Clifford Sather

• Publisher: ANU Press
• Year: 2006
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781920942878
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

This collection of papers, the third in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project, explores indigenous Austronesian ideas of origin, ancestry and alliance and considers the comparative significance of these ideas in social practice. The papers examine social practice in a diverse range of societies exte

Table of contents

• Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Hierarchy, Founder Ideology and Austronesian Expansion
• Chapter 3. The Elder and the Younger — Foreign and Autochthonous Origin and Hierarchy in the Cook Islands
• Chapter 4. Rank, Hierarchy and Routes of Migration: Chieftainship in the Central Caroline Islands of Micronesia
• Chapter 5. “All Threads Are White”: Iban Egalitarianism Reconsidered
• Chapter 6. Origin, Hierarchy and Egalitarianism Among the Mandaya of Southeast Mindanao, Philippines
• Chapter 7. The Transformation of Progenitor Lines of Origin: Patterns of Precedence in Eastern Indonesia
• Chapter 8. Origin Structures and Precedence in the Social Orders of Tana ’Ai and Sikka
• Chapter 9. Precedence Among the Domains of the Three Hearth Stones:
• Chapter 10. The Founding of the House and the Source of Life: Two Complementary Origin Structures in Buru Society
• Chapter 11. Histories of Diversity, Hierarchies of Unity: The Politics of Origins in a South-West Moluccan Village
• Chapter 12. Rivals and Wives: Affinal Politics and the Tongan Ramage
• Chapter 13. The Politics of Marriage and the Marriage of Polities in Gowa, South Sula Wesi, During the 16th and 17th Centuries
• Chapter 14. The Cultural Construction of Rank, Identity and Ethnic Origins in the Sulu Archipelago
• Contributors