After the ancestors : an anthropologist's story

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After the ancestors : an anthropologist's story

Andrew Beatty

Cambridge University Press, 2015

  • : paperback

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Includes index

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Set on an isolated Indonesian island, this is the gripping true story of a fieldworker's experience of living in a tribal society during a period of crisis. Featuring a cast of unforgettable characters, After the Ancestors follows a bitter feud between rivals as it escalates into murder, intrigue and revenge. A vivid account of life within a radically different world, it also portrays a unique culture undergoing the transition from tribalism to modernity. A century of alien rule has left the island, once famous for its warrior ethos, with a hybrid culture. As the possibilities for heroic action recede, men raised to be orators and over-reachers rather than church elders and peasants find themselves occupying a stage too small for their personalities. 'Where can we turn', asks one tribesman, 'we who come after the ancestors?' A revenge tragedy for modern times, After the Ancestors will be enjoyed by anthropologists and general readers alike.

目次

  • List of illustrations
  • Preface
  • People
  • Prologue
  • 1. The statue
  • 2. House key
  • 3. Among women
  • 4. Blood brothers
  • 5. Daggers and debutants
  • 6. Stormy Sunday
  • 7. Three things that matter
  • 8. The making of great men
  • 9. A game of chess
  • 10. Cholera song
  • 11. Progress
  • 12. Strangers and brothers
  • 13. Exile and return
  • 14. Field work
  • 15. The chicken's neck
  • 16. Good deaths and bad deaths
  • 17. First family
  • 18. Blessing
  • 19. Half an egg
  • 20. Waiting
  • 21. Death of a chief
  • 22. Ama Jonah at bay
  • 23. Unravelling
  • 24. The ethnographer and his double
  • Epilogue.

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