Precedence: social differentiation in the Austronesian world

Title......Page 1
Table of Contens......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 7
The use of precedence in Austronesian ethnography......Page 9
Papers in this volume......Page 11
Bibliography......Page 15
2. Origin and Precedence: The construction and distribution of status in the highlands of Bali......Page 21
The Economy of Status Among Mountain Balinese......Page 28
Banua: Origin and Precedence in Regional Ritual Domains......Page 29
Desa Ulu Apad: A Ritual Community and its Ceremonial Assembly......Page 36
Origin and precedence: the vertical axis of the ulu apad......Page 42
Complementarity and the lateral axis......Page 45
Conclusion......Page 50
References......Page 52
The Logic of Hierarcy: Value and Exclusion in Caste......Page 59
The Logic of Hierarchy......Page 61
The Logic of Precedence......Page 66
The Operation of Precedence in Eastern Indonesia......Page 67
The Bugis and Makasar in South Sulawesi: Intermeshing Hierarchy and Precedence......Page 73
Conclusions......Page 86
References......Page 90
Precedence as Discourse......Page 99
Complementary categories in the discourse of precedence......Page 100
Precedence and Pre-Eminence in the Domain of Termanu......Page 104
Concluding Comment......Page 113
References......Page 115
Introduction......Page 119
Economic and Ritual Significance of Trees in Meto Society......Page 120
Trunk and Tip as an Idiom of Precedence......Page 122
The Trunk of Agnation......Page 123
The Tree of Alliance......Page 127
The Grafting of Residence......Page 130
Concluding Comments in Comparative Context......Page 133
References......Page 135
Introduction......Page 141
Boer’s and Kondi’s Hikayat Kerajaan Sikka......Page 144
The Common Origin of the Ata Sikka and Ata Tana \'Ai......Page 148
Precedence in Tana Wai Brama......Page 149
Representations of the Organization of Kerajaan Sikka: The Image of the Broken Plate......Page 151
Precedence Relations in Sikka Natar and Hierarchy in the Foundation and Evolution of the Rajadom of Sikka......Page 155
Conclusion: Precedence and Hierarchy in the Sikkanese Culture Complex......Page 165
References......Page 169
Introduction......Page 175
The Social and Cosmological Bases of Precedence in Romanduru......Page 178
The Order of Precedence of Romanduru Clans......Page 184
Strategies of Contestation and the Legitimization of Authority......Page 190
Conclusion......Page 194
References......Page 195
8. A Tale of Two Villages: Hierarchy and precedence in Keo dual organization (Flores, Indonesia)......Page 199
Key Features of Keo Social Structure......Page 200
The village of Pajo Wawo (Upper Pajo Mala)......Page 205
Conclusion......Page 213
References......Page 214
9. Hierarchy, Precedence and Values: Scopes for social action in Ngadhaland, Central Flores......Page 217
Houses......Page 218
People......Page 222
Asymmetry: hierarchy? stratification? power? exploitation?......Page 224
The production and reproduction of ranked persons......Page 226
Final remarks......Page 230
References......Page 231
10. Hierarchy and Precedence in Keiese Origin Myths......Page 237
People of the Mountain, People of the Cape......Page 239
Ideas of Autochthonous World......Page 241
Cosmology in Society......Page 244
The Seriousness of Myth......Page 246
References......Page 249
Introduction......Page 253
Ko\'a Precedence: The First Settlers’ Model......Page 254
The opening of the Ko\'a sacrificing cycle of 1994......Page 257
Incest and Precedence......Page 264
Origin, Place and Precedence......Page 268
Ritual, Precedence and Marriage Alliance......Page 271
Popular Resistance and Priest-Leadership......Page 275
References......Page 280
Contributors......Page 283