The play of time: Kodi perspectives on calendars, history, and exchange /

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Janet Hoskins provides both an ethnographic study of the organization of time in an Eastern Indonesian society and a theoretical argument about alternate temporalities in the modern world. Based on more than three years of field work with the Kodi people of the island of Sumba, her book focuses on K...

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1. Verfasser:
Hoskins, Janet
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, c1993.
Zusammenfassung:
Janet Hoskins provides both an ethnographic study of the organization of time in an Eastern Indonesian society and a theoretical argument about alternate temporalities in the modern world. Based on more than three years of field work with the Kodi people of the island of Sumba, her book focuses on Kodi calendrical rituals, exchange transactions, and confrontations with the historical forces of the colonial and postcolonial world.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xx, 414 p. ) ill., maps ;
Issued also in print.
Anmerkungen:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-401) and index.
ISBN:
9780520919136
0520919130
9780585102467
0585102465
Schlagworte:
Calendar, Kodi.
Time > Social aspects > Indonesia > Kodi.
Kodi (Indonesian people) > Rites and ceremonies.
Kodi (Indonesian people) > History.
Ceremonial exchange > Indonesia > Kodi.
Calendar, Kodi > Social aspects > Kodi > Indonesia.
Time > Rites and ceremonies > Kodi > Indonesia.
Kodi (Indonesian people)
Ceremonial exchange.
Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East
History & Archaeology
East Asia
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