The Social Value of Elephant Tusks and Bronze Drums among Certain Societies in Eastern Indonesia.
This study seeks to explain how and why elephant tusks and bronze kettledrums came to occupy such an important social and ritual position in certain societies in eastern Indonesia. It argues that these two objects were selected because they came to be associated with ideas of authority and rain/fert...
| Published in: | Journal of the Humanities & Social Sciences of Southeast Asia & Oceania / Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Vol. 172; no. 1; pp. 66 - 90 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2016
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