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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