Land and Territory in the Austronesian World

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List of Figures vAcknowledgments ixChapter 1. Land and Territory in the Austronesian World. Thomas Reuter 11Chapter 2. The Origin Structure of Kute Among the Gumai: An Analysis of an Indigenous Territorial Institution in the Highlands of South Sumatra. Minako Sakai 39Chapter 3. Ritual Domains and Communal Land in the Highlands of Bali. Thomas Reuter 65Chapter 4. Banua or Negara? The Culture of Land in South Bali. Graeme MacRae 83Chapter 5. Tanah Berkat (Blessed Land): The Source of the Local in the Banda Islands, Central Maluku Phillip Winn 113Chapter 6. Mapping Buru: The Politics of Territory and Settlement on an Eastern Indonesian Island Barbara Dix Grimes 135Chapter 7. Traditional Territorial Categories and Constituent Institutions in West Seram: The Nili Ela of ’WELE Telu Batai and the Alune Hena of Ma’saman Uwei Christine Boulan-Smit 157 Chapter 8. From Domains to Rajadom: Notes on the History of Territorial Categories and Institutions in the Rajadom of Sikka E.D. Lewis 179Chapter 9. We Are Children Of The Land: A Keo Perspective Philipus Tule 211Chapter 10. Contending for Ritual Control of Land and Polity: Comparisons from the Timor Area of Eastern Indonesia James J. Fox 237Chapter 11. Fataluku Forest Tenures and the Conis Santana National Park in East Timor Andrew McWilliam 253Chapter 12. Self-Scaling the Earth: Relations of Land, Society and Body Among North Mekeo, Papua New Guinea Mark Mosko 277Chapter 13. The Ways of the Land-Tree: Mapping the North Pentecost Social Landscape John P. Taylor 299Chapter 14. Finishing the Land: Identity and Land Use in Pre- and Post-Colonial North Ambrym Mary Patterson 323Chapter 15. People and Place in Tonga: The Social Construction of Fonua in Oceania Steve Francis 345Postscript — Spatial Categories in Social Context: Tracing a Comparative Understanding of Austronesian Ideas of Ritual Location James J. Fox 365 Contributors 379Index 383