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From distant tales : archaeology and ethnohistory in the highlands of Sumatra /
This is the most comprehensive book devoted to Sumatra in more than half a century. it summarizes earlier studies, and provides a huge amount of new knowledge For The first time in readily accessible form. Sumatra is one of the world's largest islands, rich in flora and fauna, minerals and timb...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
2009.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Table of contents; list of illustrations; list of tables; introduction; part i; the dawn of humanity in sumatra; the neolithic in the highlands of sumatra; highland-lowland connections in jambi, south sumatra, and west sumatra, 11th to 14th centuries; part ii; is there a batak history?; ceramics, cloth, iron, and salt; ethnicity and colonization in northeast sumatra; the role of local informants in the making of the image of "cannibalism" in north sumatra; part iii; the megaliths and the pottery; adityawarman's highland kingdom; tambo kerinci; piagam serampas; settlement histories of serampas.
- Social structure and mobility in historical perspectivekerinci's living past; kerinci traditional architecture; the meaning of the rainforest for the suku anak dalam in jambi; part iv; mounds, tombs, and tales; southeast sumatra in protohistoric and srivijaya times; from bukit seguntang to lahat; contributors; index.