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9780198234005
Mamboru: History and Structure in a Domain of Northwestern Sumba
by Needham, Rodney
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- Condition: Good
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- Ships From: Simi Valley, CA
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- Comments: Ex library copy. No jacket.
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- ISBN-13: 9780198234005
- ISBN: 0198234007
- Publication Date: 1987
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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SUMMARY
Mamboru is a domain on the eastern Indonesian island of Sumba, which over the past two centuries has become well known both as a source of slaves and for its practice of asymmetric prescriptive alliance. After describing the region's history since 1845, Needham draws on his own ethnographic field research to examine the villages and their dependencies, the clans and their segmentation, rank, relationship terminology, and marriage practices.Needham, Rodney is the author of 'Mamboru: History and Structure in a Domain of Northwestern Sumba', published 1987 under ISBN 9780198234005 and ISBN 0198234007.
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