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

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. 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.Ethnologie GeschichteKultur Cultuurverandering.