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Indonesia east of
Bali is perhaps the least known of all
major cultural areas of Southeast Asia.
Yet the anthropology of the region has
long held a prominent place in the
development of structuralist theories of
marital exchange and symbolic
classification. Falling in a
distinguished lineage running from van
Wouden to Levi-Strauss to Rodney Needham,
The Flow of Life presents a comprehensive
set of essays by a distinguished group of
international scholars, which provides
both a full picture of this culturally
rich area and an important extension of
earlier structuralist theory. This volume
is bound to become the standard source on
the social anthropology of eastern
Indonesia. But it is a work of more than
regional significance, providing a
variety of empirical resources to address
the questions which lie at the bottom of
much structuralist thought about mind and
society: what is the nature of symbolic
thought? how does consciousness
intertwine with society and ecology? what
is the difference between
"primitive" and
"modern" society?
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