The Maloh of West Kalimantan. An Ethnographic Study of Social Inequality and Social Change Among an Indonesian Borneo People.
Dordrecht. Foris Publications. 1985. Stock ID #164100 The Maloh are a stratified indigenous population of interior West Kalimantan. This ethnographic study examines the main characteristics of Maloh social inequality historically, tracing the changes which had occurred up to the early 1970s in three dimensions of hierarchy - economic class relations, status ranking and political organization. When referring to this item please quote stockid 164100.
Maps, black and white photographic plates, viii + 252pp, appendix, glossary, bibliography, indices, markings on half title, slight rubbing on extremities but still a very good paperback copy.
The book also discusses conceptual matters relating torank and cognatic kinship in the anthropological literature on Borneo societies, and compares the Maloh system of social stratification with those of other stratified Borneo groups such as the Kayan, Kenyah and Kajang-Melanau.
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