The sacred remains : myth, history, and polity in Belau / Richard J. Parmentier
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- 1023
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- Parmentier, Richard J., 1948-
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987
- xxiii, 341 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0226646955
- 0226646963
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- List of Tables
- Belauan Texts
- Foreword, by Michael Silverstein
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Of Stories and Stones
- Toward an Anthropology of History
- Signs of History, Signs in History
- The Closely Guarded Story of Ngeremlengui
- 1. Contexts of Belau
- Pacific Geographical Context
- Austronesian Cultural Context
- Western Historical Context
- 2. Traditional Political Institutions
- Villages, Districts, and Federations
- Houses, Titles, and Councils
- Warfare, Headhunting, and Reciprocal Hostility
- Money Collection, Concubinage, and Village Friendship
- 3. Diagrammatic Icons and Historical Processes
- Four Diagrams of Social Relations
- Typification and Nodality of Paths
- Reccontextualization and Revaluation of Sides
- Structural Complexity and Historical Vulnerability
- 4. Models of Transformation of Belauan Polity
- Latmikaik and the Origin of Paths
- Chuab and the First Political Federation
- The Termination of the Polity of Chuab
- The Destruction of Belau and the Rebirth of Milad
- Names and Stones of Milad's Children
- Political Relations among Milad's Children
- Chants of Milad
- Sides of Heaven of Belau
- Models of Political Development
- 5. Kerngilianged: The Political Organization of Ngeremlengui
- From Ngeremeskang to Ngeremlengui
- Spatial Organization of Ngeremlengui
- Sides, Counterposts, and Paths in Imeiong and Ngeremetengel
- Affiliate Houses and Titles
- Cluster Hamlets: Ulechetong and Nglabang
- 6. The Rhetoric of Intradistrict Historical Narratives
- Static and Dynamic Perspectives
- Uchuladebong: Where Sacredness Remains
- Ngeremetengel: Subordinate Village or Emergent Capital?
- 7. The Story of Ngeremlengui
- The Destruction of Uluang
- The Wars of Chemeruaol
- The Slaughter at Belod
- The Peace of Olouch
- The Assassination of Ngiracheungel
- Conclusion
- English-Belauan Glossary
- Place Names
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
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- Based on the author's thesis (doctoral -- University of Chicago, 1981)
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography: p. 317-335.
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