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Kinship, population and social reproduction in the 'new Indonesia' - A study of Nuaulu cultural resilience (Hardcover)
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Kinship, population and social reproduction in the 'new Indonesia' - A study of Nuaulu cultural resilience (Hardcover)
Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
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Nuaulu people on the Indonesian island of Seram have displayed
remarkable linguistic and cultural resilience over a period of 50
years. In 1970 their language and traditional culture was widely
considered 'endangered.' Despite this, Nuaulu have not only
maintained their animist identity and shown a robust ability to
reproduce 'traditional' ritual performances, but have exhibited
both population growth and increasing assertiveness in the
projection of their interests through the politics of the 'New
Indonesia'. This book examines how kinship organization and
marriage patterns have responded to some of these challenges, and
suggests that the retention of core institutions of descent and
exchange are the consequence of population growth, which in turn
has enabled ritual reproduction, and thereby effectively maintained
a distinct identity in relation to the surrounding majority
culture. Low conversion rates to other religions, and the political
consequences of Indonesian 'reformasi', have also contributed to a
situation in which, despite changes in the material basis of their
lives, Nuaulu have projected a strong independent identity and
organisation. In terms of debates around kinship in eastern
Indonesia, this book argues that older notions of prescriptive
social structure are fundamentally flawed. Kinship institutions are
real enough, but the distinction between genealogical and
classificatory relations is often unimportant; all that matters in
the end is that the arrangements entered into between clans and
houses permit both biological and social reproduction, and that the
latter ultimately serves the former. An important contribution to
the study of the peoples of Eastern Indonesia, it highlights a
'good news story' about the successful retention of a traditional
way of life in an area that has had a troubled recent history. It
will be of interest to academics in various fields of anthropology,
in particular the study of kinship and Southeast Asian societies.
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