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The play of time : Kodi perspectives on calendars, history, and exchange /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 414 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-401) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520919136 0520919130 0585102465 9780585102467 9780520080034 0520080033 0520208927 9780520208926 |