The Play of Time
  PREFACE
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTION

 collapse sectionINTRODUCTION  THE LAND AND PEOPLE OF KODI
 •"A Land Apart": Geography and Subsistence
 •The Long Conversation: Fieldwork Conditions and the Study of Time
 •The Play of Time in Anthropological Writing
 collapse sectionSocial Units in Kodi Society
 •The House
 •Patrilines and Matrilines
 •Alliance
 •Long-Term and Short-Term Cycles

 collapse sectionPART ONE  THE KODI CONSTRUCTION OF THE PAST
 collapse section1  The Imported Past  Foreign Sources of Power
 •Origins from "Java"
 •The Sultan of Bima
 •Moslem Mercenaries: A Predatory Expansion over the Seas
 •External and Internal Slavery on Sumba
 •Batavia and the Dutch Colonial Project
 •Distant Wealth and Its Distribution
 collapse section2  The Local Origins of Time  The Day, Month, and Seasons
 collapse sectionThe Day
 •The Origins of Night and Day
 •Markers Of The Day
 •The Time Of Daily Social Activities
 •Numbered Days And Named Intervals
 collapse sectionThe Month
 •Methods Of Moon Counting
 •The Seasons
 •The Beginnings of Time and the Construction of the Past
 collapse section3  The Past in Narrative  The Creation of the Calendar
 •Genres of Stories About the Past
 •The Politics of Narrative Collection
 •Presentation of Texts
 •Problems of Legitimacy, Authenticity, and Hierarchy
 •Different Tellings of the Tales: Historicizing These Narratives
 collapse section4  The Past in Objects
 •History Objects and the Reification of the Past
 collapse sectionThe Location and Transfer of Objects in the Past
 •The Urn as a Ritual Object
 •The Urn Meets the Staff
 •Contested Claims: The Staff Separates from the Urn
 •Stoking The Flames of Controversy
 •Separated Powers: The Japanese Occupation and Independence
 •Interpreting and Criticizing Sources on the Kodi Past
 •The System of Objects and Knowledge of the Past
 •Objects in Movement and Objects in Place
 collapse section5  The Past in Action  The Rites of the Kodi Year
 •The "Bitter Chicken" of the Four-Month Ritual Silence
 •From Taboos to License
 •The Sea Worm Swarming and Pasola Jousting
 •Roasting a Chicken to the Dead: Sacrifices in the Ancestral Villages
 •Time, Carnival, and Disruptive Revels
 •A Century of Pasola Performances
 •Rites of Regeneration
 •Disparate Voices in a Unified Calendar

 collapse sectionPART TWO  EXCHANGE SEQUENCES AND STRATEGIES
 collapse section6  Exchanges over Time  Continuities Between Past and Present
 •Hierarchy, Regional Differences, and Exchange
 •Less Than Revolutionary: Money and the Traditional Economy
 •A View from the 1980s
 collapse sectionA Slice of Time: Exchange in the Period 1983-88
 •Statistical Data
 •Bridewealth
 •Funerals
 •Feasts
 •Reflections and Evaluations
 •Biographical Time, Exchange, and Rival Scales of Value
 collapse section7  Time as Value  Taking the Bull by the Horns
 •Horns, Tusks, and Value
 •From Livestock to Pigs: Equivalences and Conversions
 •The Meat Market Versus the Exchange Market
 collapse sectionSacrificial Economies and Commodity Economies
 •Eyelashes and Exports
 •Time, Exchange, and Traditional Economies
 •Biographical Time, Intergenerational Time, and Social Reproduction
 •Time as Value Versus Time as Money
 collapse section8  Contested Time  The Feast in Dream Village
 •Feasting and the Politics of Time
 collapse sectionLand Rights and a Dream of Wealth
 •Opening Ceremonies: Inviting The Spirits (Palaru Marapu)
 •Evening Offerings (Raka Malo): Remembering Time Past
 •The Quarrel On The Feast Day: Time Questioned and Intervals Defied
 •The Buffalo Sacrifice
 •Sequences and Simultaneity: Prayer Versus Sacrifice
 •Regaining Time in the Upperworld: Sending Off the Animal Souls
 •Redundancy, Rhetoric, and Innovation
 •Reflections After the Fact: Comments on the Film
 •When All Is Said and Done: Visual and Verbal Elements
 collapse section9  Death and the End of Time  Final Exchanges
 •Mortality as a Break in Time
 •Visible and Invisible Participants
 •Making Peace with the Wife-Givers
 •Returning Life to the Origin Village
 •The Final Time of Separation
 •The Meaning of Final Exchanges
 •The Divination: A Journey into the Past
 •Closing Off the Opening Between Past and Present
 •Silence and Speech, Affines and Agnates
 •Epilogue: Changing the Ties to the Past

 collapse sectionPART THREE  LOCAL TIME AND THE ENCOUNTER WITH "HISTORY"
 collapse section10  A New Order of Time  Church and State
 •Entering the "Bitter House": Stages of a Dialogue
 •Finding "Religion" in the Indigenous System
 •Early Evangelization
 •The First Dialogue with the Church
 •Christianity and the Critique of Colonialism
 •Beginnings of Conflict Between the Church and Local Practice
 •Evangelization and Development: New Routines and Disciplines
 •Recent Reinterpretations
 •Rationalized Paganism: Old Rites in New Times
 collapse section11  The Past as Ideology  New Heroes, New Histories
 •History and Heritage
 •Nationalism on Sumba
 •The Headhunter Before History
 •The Origins of Local Resistance
 •From Headhunting to Regional Resistance
 •The Javanese-derived Model of the Past
 •The Conflict of Heritage and History: Local Reimaginings
 •The Hero Created by History
 collapse section12  The Embattled Chronologer  The Politics of the Calendar
 •The Politics of Sea Worm Festivities
 •The Problems in Primitive Calendars
 •Lunar Calendars in a Regional System
 •The 1980 Controversy over the Dates for Nale
 •Regional Calendars and the Control of Time
 •Epilogue: Stepping In and Out of Time
 collapse section13  Revolutions in Time, Revolutions in Consciousness
 •Kodi Temporality
 •Indonesian Calendars and Chronologies
 •Totalities and Practices
 •Playing Back over Time

  BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES
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