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Beyond Samosir: Recent Studies of the Batak Peoples of Sumatra

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Introduction / R.S. Kipp --
Emergent vs. invariant models / E.M. Bruner --
Political oratory in a modernizing Southern Batak homeland / S.R. Siregar --
Hierarchy and alliance in two Sumatran societies / R.P. Lando and L.L. Thomas --
Simalungun Batak economy and society / W. Clauss --
The village as a category of Pakpak Batak descent / R.G. Coleman --
A political system of highland Sumatra, or, Rethinking Edmund Leach / R.S. Kipp --
Some notes on administering justice in Karoland, North Sumatra, Indonesia / H. Slaats and M.K. Portier --
Fictive kinship and changing ethnicity among Karo and Toba migrants / R.D. Kipp.

155 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

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