| The Play of Time |
| PREFACE |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
| NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTION |
 | INTRODUCTION THE LAND AND PEOPLE OF KODI |
 | PART ONE THE KODI CONSTRUCTION OF THE PAST |
| 1 The Imported Past Foreign Sources of Power |
| 2 The Local Origins of Time The Day, Month, and Seasons |
| 3 The Past in Narrative The Creation of the Calendar |
| 4 The Past in Objects |
| 5 The Past in Action The Rites of the Kodi Year |
| PART TWO EXCHANGE SEQUENCES AND STRATEGIES |
| 6 Exchanges over Time Continuities Between Past and Present |
| 7 Time as Value Taking the Bull by the Horns |
| 8 Contested Time The Feast in Dream Village |
| 9 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 |
| PART THREE LOCAL TIME AND THE ENCOUNTER WITH "HISTORY" |
| 10 A New Order of Time Church and State |
| 11 The Past as Ideology New Heroes, New Histories |
| 12 The Embattled Chronologer The Politics of the Calendar |
| 13 Revolutions in Time, Revolutions in Consciousness |
| BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |
| INDEX |