Based on three years of field work with the Kodi people of Sumba, Indonesia, this ethnographical study focuses on Kodi calendar rituals, exchange transactions and confrontations with the historical forces of the colonial and postcolonial world.
In this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions.
Looks at the connections between “the age of revelations” (1925-1934) in French Indochina and the “age of diaspora”... Læs mere