Gesellschaftliche Verhältnisse der Ngadha. Paul Arndt
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 58, Heft 1, S. 195-195
ISSN: 1548-1433
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 58, Heft 1, S. 195-195
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Asian journal of social science, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 493-524
ISSN: 2212-3857
In: Social analysis: journal of cultural and social practice, Band 60, Heft 4
ISSN: 1558-5727
In: Anthropos: internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde : international review of anthropology and linguistics : revue internationale d'ethnologie et de linguistique, Band 115, Heft 2, S. 389-404
ISSN: 2942-3139
This is the first published account of kin classification of Mego, a district in the extreme eastern part of the Lio region of Flores Island. Despite recent changes affecting marriage practices, the terminology survives as a classification of asymmetric alliance. Terminological usage is discussed with reference to traditional social forms and comparatively, in relation to several other Lio terminologies, cognate terms in other Ngadha-Lio languages, and Malayo-Polynesian and Austronesian protoforms. Needham's (1984) blanket characterization of an implicitly unitary "Lio" terminology as revealing features of asymmetric alliance in the first ascending and descending levels, but symmetric features in ego's level, is refuted by showing quite continuous variation among different parts of Lio, as well as symmetric indications in other levels. The latter are discussed both as features that ignore or supersede "wife-takers" subordination to "wife-givers" as receivers of brides, and as evidence for a historical transformation from symmetric to asymmetric alliance.