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Tetum Ghosts and
Kin |
Penulis |
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David Hicks |
Penerbit |
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Waveland Press,
Inc. |
Bahasa |
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Inggris |
Tahun Cetak |
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1988 |
Halaman |
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143 |
ISBN |
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0-88133-320-4 |
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My chief purpose in this book is to show how ritual in a nonliterate community brings together many different facets of that community’s culture— religious beliefs, kinship practices, literature, ecology, even the architecture of the house—and unites them in a comprehensive system. The community in this case is the population of the two villages of Mamulak and Mane Hat, which together make up the aristocratic half of a princedom known as Caraubalo. This princedom is found in one of the three main regions inhabited by the Tetum people of eastern Indonesia, among whom I lived and worked for fifteen months. Certain details of culture in Mamulak differ from those in Mane Hat, and I shall point these out when necessary. Otherwise, when making observations common to both villages I shall use the names Mamulak and Mane Hat interchangeably.