Author: Boon, James A.
Title: Affinities & Extremes: Crisscrossing the Bittersweet Ethnology of East Indies History, Hindu-Balinese Culture...
Description: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1990). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xviii,246 pp, Full title concludes: "...and Indo-European Allure".. Textual illustrations. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Early Indonesian Studies: Birds, Words, & Orangutans; or Divinity, Degeneracy, & Discourse; Colonialist Countertypes: Emblazoning Bali versus Rejang & Java, or Representations & Ambivalence; Alliterative Interlude: Entexted Ethnology, Hybrid History, Basics of Baliology, Ritual-cum-Rhetoric; Siwaic Semiotics: Allegorical Machineries, Spatial Desituations, Polycosmology, Parodic Performance; Twice-Born Twins Times Two: Legendary Marriage Structures & Gender in Hierarchic versus Asymmetric Houses; Indo-European Affinities: Ritual-rhetorics of "Love" Across Courtly Cultures, Contexts & Times; Oppositionally Hindoo: Heterodoxies & Reformisms Dispersed; Concluding Destinations: Tantric Fragments, Extremest Extremes; Postlude: Mead's Meditations- Some Separations from the Sepik, By Way of Bateson, on to Bali...and Beyond.

Keywords: Cultural Anthropology, Historical, Ethnology, Ethnography, Indonesia, Bali, Southeast Asia, ,