Bøger i Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde serien

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.

In order to arrange the papers araund a theme that has never ceased to fascinate van Baal, we have asked the contributors to concentrate on a rel igious subject. The topics of the three sections by no means represent an exhaustive inventory of all fields van Baal has successfully explored.

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.

With deep interest I have followed the Indonesian people's fight for freedom and independence from 1945 onwards. After having lived and worked in Indonesia from 1946 to the end of 1960, I was twice more enabled to visit Indonesia thanks to grants from the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO).

The Dutch Nagara-Kertagama translation on which Professor Kern worked, at intervals, during eleven years, deserves our utmost admir ation and respect.

The growing interest in the history of Indonesia has made it desirable to have an English summary of the principal works of the Dutch historian Dr H.

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.

In this handbook, which is a sequal to my The Stone Age of Indo nesia, I have endeavoured to assemble a comprehensive picture of the Indonesian Bronze-Iron Age from the results of excavations, innumerable stray finds in museums, and various studies scattered among numerous scientific journals and periodicals (often difficult to obtain).