And the Sun Pursued the Moon: Symbolic Knowledge and Traditional Authority Among the Makassar

by Thomas Gibson and Anwar Jimpe Rachman

Over the course of a thousand years, from 600 to 1600 CE, the Java Sea was dominated by a ring of maritime kingdoms whose rulers engaged in long-distance raiding, trading, and marriage alliances with one another. And the Sun Pursued the Moon explores the economic, political, and symbolic processes by which early Makassar communities were incorporated into this regional system.

As successive empires like Srivijaya, Kediri, Majapahit, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824828658
• ISBN13: 9780824828653
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.3"