Dualism and Hierarchy: Processes of Binary Combination in Keo Society

by Gregory Forth and Gregory L. Forth

Society in the Keo region of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores reveals a pervasive pairing of villages, clans, and other groups. This work studies such pairing, using results from fieldwork conducted by the author over a period of fifteen years. It analyzes a form of society that has
occupied anthropologists since the inception of their discipline--morphological dualism, or dual organization--and explores these issues through original ethnographic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198234244
• ISBN13: 9780198234241
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages