Alorese OF05.

The Alorese live on the Island of Alor, in East Nusa Tenggara Province of Indonesia. Alor is noted as an area of tremendous cultural and linguistic diversity. Alorese estimate between 48 and 60 mutually unintelligible Austronesian languages are spoken on Alor, and many of the inhabitants speak Bahas...

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Corporate Author: Human Relations Area Files, inc
Other Authors: Kardiner, Abram, 1891-, Oberholzer, Emil, b. 1883, Du Bois, Cora Alice, 1903-, Scarduelli, Pietro, 1948-
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 2003-
Series:eHRAF world cultures. Asia
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Table of Contents:
  • Attitudes toward food and hunger in Alor ; How they pay their debts / Cora Du Bois
  • The people of Alor: a social-psychological study of an East Indian Island / by Cora Du Bois with analyses by Abram Kardiner and Emil Oberholzer
  • Symbolic organization of space and social identity in Alor / Pietro Scarduelli.