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The recent rebuilding of the house of the clan from which a 'king' of Manggarai was chosen during direct Dutch rule on the island of Flores in the Indonesian archipelago has brought to light several different histories of that clan's rise to power and the meaning of the house in those histories. This paper explores the contestation over both time and place in Todo, Manggarai, relating them to people's present-day concerns., Constructing history often becomes a contest over time and place. It is not always the facts that are contested, but their representations and interpretations. Recent disputes over how World War [...]

Asymmetric marriage alliance, found in quite a number of societies throughout Southeast Asia, has generated a great deal of theoretical interest in anthropology throughout the present century. The early Dutch [...]

By JANET HOSKINS. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997 [Paperback Reprint of 1993 Hardcover Edition]. Pp. xx, 414. Photographs, Maps, Tables, Bibliography, Index. It is easy to see why this [...]

By PAULA R. BOS. Amsterdam: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, 1999. Pp. 96. Map, Illustrations, Bibliograph This is an interesting little piece, published as a 'bulletin' by the Royal Tropical [...]