The play of time : Kodi perspectives on calendars, history, and exchange / Janet Hoskins
1993, 1st edition. Berkeley : University of California Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #424252
ISBN: 0520080033
Physical description; xx, 414 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-401) and index. Contents; Introduction: The Land and People of Kodi -- pt. 1. The Kodi Construction of the Past. 1. The Imported Past: Foreign Sources of Power. 2. The Local Origins of Time: The Day, Month, and Seasons. 3. The Past in Narrative: The Creation of the Calendar. 4. The Past in Objects: The Colonial Encounter. 5. The Past in Action: The Rites of the Kodi Year -- pt. 2. Exchange Sequences and Strategies. 6. Exchanges Over Time: Continuities Between Past and Present. 7. Time as Value: Taking the Bull by the Horns. 8. Contested Time: The Feast in Dream Village. 9. Death and the End of Time: Final Exchanges -- pt. 3. Local Time and the Encounter With "History" 10. A New Order of Time: Church and State. 11. The Past as Ideology: New Heroes, New Histories. 12. The Embattled Chronologer: The Politics of the Calendar. 13. Revolutions in Time, Revolutions in Consciousness. Subjects; Calendar, Kodi. Time Social aspects Indonesia Kodi. Kodi (Indonesian people) Rites and ceremonies. Kodi (Indonesian people) History. Ceremonial exchange Indonesia Kodi. Ceremonial exchange.Kodi (Indonesian people). Time Social aspects. History. Ethnology.
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