Author: NICOLSPEYER, M.M.,
Title: De Sociale Structuur van een Aloreesche Bevolkingsgroep. [Orig. thesis Leyden University].
Description: Rijswijk (Z.H.), V.A. Kramers, [printers], 1940. Orig. stiff wraps. (vi), [1] (list of contents), 180pp. With a plate, some drawings in a plate, footnotes, extensive glossary alorese-dutch, 2 large fold. genealogical tables, listing kinship-relations at very end. Ethnological research amongst the mountain people of Alor, Timor Archipelago, at the village of Atime-lang, October 1938-February 1939. Promovendus was a guest to Mrs. Cora Dubois, a Columbia University Professor. Promovendus researched the social structure of this mountain people, incl. original alorese texts in latin script, with translations into dutch. Good to very good copy. Scarce. (lower margin of front wrapper with some light spotting).

Keywords: thesis science field research alor timor group mountain area sociology kinship relations eastern indonesia nusa tenggara tengah colonialism indonesia southeast asia