Description |
xxiii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Machine derived contents note: List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Belauan Texts -- Foreword, by Michael Silverstein -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Of Stories and Stones -- Toward an Anthropology of History -- Signs of History, Signs in History -- The Closely Guarded Story of Ngeremlengui -- 1. Contexts of Belau -- Pacific Geographical Context -- Austronesian Cultural Context -- Western Historical Context -- 2. Traditional Political Institutions -- Villages, Districts, and Federations -- Houses, Titles, and Councils -- Warfare, Headhunting, and Reciprocal Hostility -- Money Collection, Concubinage, and Village Friendship -- 3. Diagrammatic Icons and Historical Processes -- Four Diagrams of Social Relations -- Typification and Nodality of Paths -- Reccontextualization and Revaluation of Sides -- Structural Complexity and Historical Vulnerability -- 4. Models of Transformation of Belauan Polity -- Latmikaik and the Origin of Paths -- Chuab and the First Political Federation -- The Termination of the Polity of Chuab -- The Destruction of Belau and the Rebirth of Milad -- Names and Stones of Milad's Children -- Political Relations among Milad's Children -- Chants of Milad -- Sides of Heaven of Belau -- Models of Political Development -- 5. Kerngilianged: The Political Organization of Ngeremlengui -- From Ngeremeskang to Ngeremlengui -- Spatial Organization of Ngeremlengui -- Sides, Counterposts, and Paths in Imeiong and Ngeremetengel -- Affiliate Houses and Titles -- Cluster Hamlets: Ulechetong and Nglabang -- 6. The Rhetoric of Intradistrict Historical Narratives -- Static and Dynamic Perspectives -- Uchuladebong: Where Sacredness Remains -- Ngeremetengel: Subordinate Village or Emergent Capital? -- 7. The Story of Ngeremlengui -- The Destruction of Uluang -- The Wars of Chemeruaol -- The Slaughter at Belod -- The Peace of Olouch -- The Assassination of Ngiracheungel -- Conclusion -- English-Belauan Glossary -- Place Names -- References -- Index. |
Note |
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral -- University of Chicago, 1981) |
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Includes indexes. |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 317-335. |
Subject |
Ethnology -- Palau.
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Palau -- History.
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Palau -- Social life and customs.
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ISBN |
0226646955 |
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0226646963 paperback |
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