KINSHIP, POPULATION AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION IN THE 'NEW INDONESIA': A study of Nuaulu Cultural Resilience.

First Edition. Publisher's original pictoral boards with no dustwrapper, as issued. A fine copy with some light rubbing to the boards and a little bumping to the panel corners and spine ends. Previous owners inscription to the front free endpaper, but otherwise the contents are clean throughout and the binding, tight and square.

Explores how the Nuaulu people of Seram have 'displayed remarkable luinguistic and cultural resilience over the last 50 years' despite at one point being considered endangered. 'An important contribution to the study of the peoples of eastern Indonesia, it highlights a 'good news story' about the successful retention of a traditional way of life in an area that has a troubled recent history' - publisher's blurb.