Affinities and extremes : crisscrossing the bittersweet ethnology of East Indies history, Hindu-Balinese culture, and Indo-European allure

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990. 1st edition. Softcover. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xviii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-240) and index. Contents: Machine derived contents note: Prelude Acknowledgments 1. Early Indonesian Studies: Birds, Words, and Orangutans; or Divinity, Degeneracy, and Discourse 2. Colonialist Countertypes: Emblazoning Bali versus Rejang and Java; or Representations and Ambivalence 3. Alliterative Interlude: Entexted Ethnology, Hybrid History, Basics of Baliology, Ritual-cum-Rhetoric 4. Siwaic Semiotics: Allegorical Machineries, Spatial Desituations, Polycosmology, Parodic Performance 5. Twice-Born Twins Times Two: Legendary Marriage Structures and Gender in Hierarchic versus Asymmetric Houses 6. Indo-European Affinities: Ritual-rhetorics of ""Love"" Across Courtly Cultures, Contexts, and Times 7. Oppositionally Hindoo: Heterodoxies and Reformisms Dispersed Concluding Destinations: Tantric Fragments, Extremest Extremes Postlude; Mead's Mediations -- Some Separations from the Sepik, by way of Bateson, on to Bali, and Beyond Notes Bibliography -- Index. Subjects: Ethnology Indonesia Bali Island; Ethnologie Indon�sie Bali (�le; Civilization; Ethnology; Culture Contact: Society; Bali (Indonesia)Society; Bali Island (Indonesia) Civilization.