Grandchildren of the Ga'e Ancestors: Social Organization and Cosmology

by Andrea Katalin Molnar

Grandchildren of the Ga?e Ancestors focuses on the social organization, cosmology and ritual system of Hoga Sara society on the island of Flores. The first anthropological account of this eastern Indonesian people, this study challenges the classical models of descent and alliance by demonstrating the limitations of these analytical abstractions for understanding the social system of the Hoga Sara. The intricacies of social organization and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9067181471
• ISBN13: 9789067181471
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.4"