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Abel, Filomeno Simão Jacob. "Structure and history in Kisar." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670239.

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Butt, Leslie. "The social and political life of infants among the Baliem Valley Dani, Irian Jaya /." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=34921.

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Among the Baliem valley Dani of the central highlands of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, infants play a prominent role in social relations. Infant mortality rates among the Dani are above two hundred and fifty deaths per thousand live births and birth rates are low. To these patterns of infant survival and growth the Dani consistently ascribe complex meaning. Drawing from anthropological research conducted in 1994--1995 in the Baliem valley, this dissertation demonstrates that indigenous meanings about the infant body and assessments of infant health link the infant to political relations within polygy

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Roth, J. Peter. "Thousands or Millions: Stories." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1101.

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This collection explores various aspects of Indonesian culture. From remote government settlements off the coast of Sumatra to the urbanized and commercial beaches of Bali, these stories take a look at the complexities, differences and adjustments felt by people of both the East and West. An attempt has been made to detail confusion, frustration, disorientation, struggles, prejudices, misunderstandings as well as epiphanies without Orientializing (to borrow Edward Said's term) various ways of life within the archipelago. To most fairly convey the intricacies and differences between the broad g

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Vickers, Adrian. "The desiring prince : a study of the Kidung Malat as text." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1986. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28590.

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In writing a thesis it is difficult to do justice to the personal pleasures and intellectual experiences of six years. Although I anticipated that I would have to omit much of the data from my field work and delvings into library and museum collections, it was, in retrospect, difficult to limit the amount of material used when so much remains to be known about the culture and history of Bali. This dissertation is intended to break down some of the disciplinary divisions which have hampered a fuller appreciation of that culture and history.

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Vickers, Adrian. "The desiring prince : a study of the Kidung Malat as text." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1986. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28590.2.

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In writing a thesis it is difficult to do justice to the personal pleasures and intellectual experiences of six years. Although I anticipated that I would have to omit much of the data from my field work and delvings into library and museum collections, it was, in retrospect, difficult to limit the amount of material used when so much remains to be known about the culture and history of Bali. This dissertation is intended to break down some of the disciplinary divisions which have hampered a fuller appreciation of that culture and history.

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Roberts, Jonathan Fergus. "The politics of participation : an ethnography of gamelan associations in Surakarta, central Java." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c8975102-b7c8-4e07-874d-9bd3371de216.

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Professional Javanese gamelan musicians and the way they think about and make music have been extensively studied by ethnomusicologists. This thesis shifts the analytical focus to the experience and practice of players in 'gamelan associations' for whom music is neither their primary occupation nor main source of income. It addresses two issues: firstly, who are these musicians and what does their way of playing and conceiving of music tell us about gamelan, and secondly, what opportunities and benefits does participation in these groups afford them. The first section sets out the details and

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Aoyama, T��ru 1957. "A study of the Sutasoma kakawin : a Buddhist narrative in the fourteenth century Java." Phd thesis, School of Asian Studies, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8601.

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Husni, Rahiem Maila Dinia. "Learning from the west : sexuality education in taboo Javanese society." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81497.

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In this thesis I examine the issues of sex education in Western and Javanese society using a conceptual-comparative approach. My main goal is to highlight the importance of sex education for young people in Javanese society. Research foci and discoveries include: how the notions of conservatism with regards to sexuality are rooted in Javanese culture and social values; the definitions, history, components, methods and principles of Western sex education (particularly Canadian); the measures of success for sex education programs in the West; and to what extent Western sex education can b

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Matsuda, Misa. "Japanese tourists and Indonesia : images of Self and Other in the age of kokusaika (internationalization)." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/114557.

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The case study in the following chapters has been inspired by both anthropology and Asian studies as interdisciplinary area studies. It is a study of the way in which the Other (the local people's lives and culture or the ’hosts') is represented in relation to the meaning system of the Self (tourists1 or ’guests’) in the limited context of tourism. This is studied through the representation of'Indonesia' in Japanese travel brochures, paying particular attention to the the relationship between the self-image of Japanese and the way in which they construct the Other.

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Harple, Todd S. "Controlling the dragon : an ethno-historical analysis of social engagement among the Kamoro of South-West New Guinea (Indonesia Papua/Irian Jaya)." View thesis entry in Australian Digital Theses Program, 2000. http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20030401.173221/index.html.

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Skrzypek, Emilia E. "Stories of the invisible mine : ethnographic account of stakeholder relations at the Frieda River Project, Papua New Guinea." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11971.

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Located amid tropical rainforest, in an upper tributary of the Sepik River, the Frieda River area is home to one of the biggest undeveloped gold and copper deposits in the Pacific. Exploration of Frieda's rich deposits has been ongoing since it began in 1969, bringing together unlikely partners in a process of preparing for a large-scale resource extraction project. This thesis offers an ethnographic account of stakeholder relations as they were unfolding at Frieda over forty years after the first company arrived on the banks of the River. It presents the key stakeholders of the Frieda River P

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Drakard, Jane. "A kingdom of words : Minangkabau sovereignty in Sumatran history." Phd thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/116305.

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The thesis is concerned with the nature of royal authority in the Sumatran inland kingdom of Minangkabau in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It takes as its point of departure the problem posed by early European perceptions of that authority. European contacts were with the coasts of Sumatra. The Minangkabau heartland, behind its mountain barrier, appeared remote and inaccessible. The Dutch, following on the heels of the Portuguese in the seventeenth century, were contemptuous of the rulers of Minangkabau, describing them as powerless - as kings in word only and not in deed.

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Ng, Cecilia S. H. "The weaving of prestige : village women's representations of the social categories of Minangkabau society." Phd thesis, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/111331.

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The Minangkabau of West Sumatra have been much written about. Yet there is little in the literature about the Minangkabau women. This thesis explores the position and concerns of the Minangkabau women. A central argument in this thesis is that the Minangkabau village society is matrifocal. To achieve coherence in our understanding, Minangkabau social organisation has to be conceptualised as predicated on the exchange of men among groups of women. This perspective on Minangkabau social organisation is made manifest on ceremonial occasions. As such, this thesis focuses on women’s exchange

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Molnar, Andrea Katalin. "The grandchildren of the Ga'e ancestors : the Hoga Sara of Ngada in West-Central Flores." Phd thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/111186.

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The thesis is based on eighteen months of fieldwork in the regency of Ngada on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores. It examines the system of organizing principles and symbolism of Hoga Sara society as is expressed in its social organization and cosmology. The people of the modem village and former village confederacy of the Sara Sedu, the Hoga Sara, are on a continuum with the Ngadha and Nage-Keo ethnic groups of the regency. They exhibit, however, their own unique cultural features as a group in their own right, and as a part of a larger grouping which encompasses the peoples of

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Filloux, Arlette. "Land, ancestors and men : social structures in the making." Phd thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/116303.

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This thesis centers upon the maintenance of the social structures through the norms and values forming the ethos of a Balinese village. It is focused primarily upon the husband and wife pair during the active period of their life, because the conjugal unit is the agency who contributes to the preservation of the normative status quo through its actions in the social, economic and ritual domains. The welfare of the village community rests upon the ability and willingness of this unit to discharge its social duties and fulfil its social roles in a manner which is both appropriate to

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Grimes, Barbara D. "The pursuit of prosperity and blessing : social life and symbolic action on Buru Island, Eastern Indonesia." Phd thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/116166.

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This thesis is an ethnographic analysis based on fieldwork among the 'mountain people' of the interior of Burn, an island located in the present-day province of Maluku in the Republic of Indonesia. Interested in 'metaphors for living' I found important Burn metaphors refer to botanic 'roots’ and 'tips'. The conceptualization of botanic growth as the consequence of life being transmitted from roots to new leaf-tips also applies to the Burn social world. This study details the Burn 'quest for life', a quest concerned with maintaining proper relationships with sources of life to ensure the

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Bubandt, Nils Ole. "Warriors of the Hornbill, victims of the Mantis : history and embodied morality among the Buli of Central Halmahera." Phd thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/116149.

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This thesis is an ethnographic account of the Buli, an Austronesian-speaking and predominantly Christian group numbering some 3,500 people who live on the central east coast of Halmahera in the northeastern comer of Indonesia. The study focuses on the Buli category of gua, a cannibal spirit that possesses particular people and forces them to attack and devour the liver of fellow villagers. Such attacks cause serious illness and often death. Taking the events that surrounded gua attacks and gua deaths as my point of departure, I attempt a semiotic and phenomenological analysis of the gua,

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Grimes, Barbara D. "The return of the bride : affiliation and alliance on Buru." Master's thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/116148.

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On the island of Burn in the Indonesian province of Maluku certain social groups, called noro, play a very prominent role in society as do similar groups in many other societies of eastern Indonesia.1 Every individual in Buru society belongs to a noro and at any given point in time he or she can only belong to one noro. The noro an individual belongs to is the primary source of his or her social identity and prescribes relationships and interaction with other individuals and groups in society. Because of the significance of these social groups I began inquiring more about them and soon

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Nur, Aslam. "Ramadan, fasting and feasting in Lamno Aceh." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/143765.

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Curnow, Jayne. "Ngadha webs of interdependence : a community economy in Flores, Indonesia." Phd thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/147069.

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Parker, Lyn. "Village and state in "new order" Bali." Phd thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/111390.

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This thesis documents the complex process by which a conservative village, Brassika, in South Bali, has been absorbed into the nation-state of Indonesia. National-level political events such as the Land Reform Act of 1960 and the Gestapu coup and its violent aftermath have led to a significant redistribution of agricultural land in Brassika. The Puri, the traditional ruling house of the village and major landowner, has transferred significant amounts of land to new owners. Government policies and development programmes have enmeshed the villagers in the Indonesian macroeconomy. Gree

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Pellu, Lintje H. "A domain united, a domain divided : an ethnographic study of social relations and social change among the people of Landu, East Rote, Eastern Indonesia." Phd thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109802.

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Landu is one of the eighteen domains (nusak) in the old political system on Rote Island, Eastern Indonesia. In 1756 Landu suffered tragic destruction by the Dutch and as a consequence the people of Landu were taken into slavery and exiled to Batavia. The area became an almost empty land. Gradually over time, people from the neighboring domains migrated to Landu with most new settlers occupying the eastern and western parts of the domain. This study, based on fieldwork conducted in the three villages of Sotimori, Bolatena and Daiama, offers an ethnographic study of Landu, in which I discu

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Helliwell, Christine. "The ricefield and the hearth : social relations in a Borneo Dayak community." Phd thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/111373.

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Following Freeman's pioneering studies of Iban social organisation, a particular conception of Borneo Dayak social relations has become established in the anthropological literature. In contrast to the classic Radcliffe-Brownian model of social structure in which small-scale societies are presented as organised into systems of segmentary descent groups, the social structure of Dayak societies is seen as consisting in highly independent p residential units or households. This study of the Dayak community of Gerai disputes such an understanding of Dayak social organisation. Because of t

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Neonbasu, Gregor. "We seek our roots : oral tradition in Biboki, West Timor." Phd thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151020.

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Winn, Phillip. "Banda the blessed land : local identification & morality in a Maluku muslim community." Phd thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/146214.

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Pushparajah, Lorenzen Rachel. "Perseverance in the face of change : resilience assessment of Balinese irrigated rice cultivation." Phd thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151230.

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The subak in Bali is a type of farmer-managed canal-irrigated rice cultivation system, which has long been recognised for its efficient water use and high rice productivity. Subaks are firmly embedded in local Hindu culture with institutions that guide farmers in sharing water equitably. Water sharing is based on principles of proportionality and transparency and irrigation system maintenance is egalitarian. In the 1960s, rice production was modernised and commercialised with Green Revolution technologies to feed a rapidly growing population. Some of these new technologies initially caused con

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Southon, Michael. "The navel of the perahu : meaning and values in the maritime trading economy of a Butonese village." Master's thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/143775.

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Leonard, Alex. "Ombak Besar, Hati Besar, Orang Besar : the Kuta surfing tradition and its heroes, 1969-2001." Phd thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/147958.

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Palmer, Blair David. "Big men and old men : migrant-led status change in Buton, Indonesia." Phd thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148400.

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Tule, Philipus. "Longing for the house of God, dwelling in the house of the ancestors : local belief, Christianity and Islam among the Kéo of Central Flores." Phd thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148477.

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Boulan-Smit, Marie-Christine. "We, of the Banyan tree : traditions of origin of the Alune of West Seram." Phd thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/13152.

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Several small communities of Alune and Wemale shifting cultivators are established in the upland region of 'Wele Telu, the 'Three Large Rivers' of West Seram in eastern Indonesia. Although the centralised state regards these peripheral desa as marginal, this is not the view of the people themselves. Comparatively more isolated than the coastal communities, the mountain 'domains' (hena, inama, anakota) claim to have preserved a traditional relationship to their land and their ancient mode of affiliation and marriage alliances. Each domain forms a social, territorial, religious and political uni

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Alesich, Simone Kate. "Healthy mothers, modern villagers : health, development and village-state relations in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia." Phd thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148195.

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Cookson, Michael Benedict. "Batik Irian : imprints of Indonesian Papua." Phd thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151394.

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Turmudi, Endang. "Struggling for the umma : changing leadership roles of kiai in Jombang, East Java." Phd thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/144439.

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Mediani, I. A. "Wet-rice cultivation in Bali : the continuity of technology and social organisation from the 9th Century to the present." Master's thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/142706.

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Anggraini, Luh M. "Place attachment, place identity and tourism in Jimbaran and Kuta, Bali." Thesis, 2015. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:32139.

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This thesis is an ethnography involving as case studies two prominent tourism districts in Bali, Indonesia: Jimbaran and Kuta. The thesis explores the intersection between place attachment, place identity and tourism in these destination communities with implications for tourism planning. The study focuses on how local residents of Jimbaran and Kuta construct place meaning and perform place attachment; how locals value their place after tourism; how local communities (re)construct place identity; and how a local sense of place approach can inform tourism planning in Bali. Drawing on photograph

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