Books in the Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde series

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- I. Introduction -- II. The Two Villages -- III. The House -- IV. Agriculture -- V. The Spirit World -- VI. Social Organization -- VII. The Symbolic System -- Appendix A. Report on the fieldwork -- Appendix B. Some of my informants -- Appendix C. Current settlements in South Halmahera -- Bibliography -- Index

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Vol. 2 published: Dordrecht, Holland; Cinnaminson, U.S.A.: Foris Publications.

Once more I owe a very great debt of gratitude to Jeune Scott-Kemball, who has been able to accomplish casting my Dutch translation in prose of the lines in trochaic metre of the Chants for the Deceased into a very elegant English verse form.

Arung Palakka's repeated references throughout his life to this link served a dual purpose: it reaffirmed his continuing devotion and loyalty to the Company, while reminding the people of South Sulawesi of the weapon which he could wield if neces sary to maintain power.

Every book has its own personal story and my book on the Jaqaj people is no exception. I collected my initial data at the time when the Dutch government was responsible for what is now lrian Jaya, a province of Indonesia. In 1969 I finished the Dutch draft of the present book.

In many societies, and particularly in those generally studied by anthropologists, inherit ance and succession are closely interconnected with kinship and descent and provide the economic and political substance for the existence and continuity of kinship- or descent-based social groups.