Pre-capitalism and Cosmology

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Pre-capitalism and Cosmology is written by Jelle Miedema and published by KITLV Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9067652091 (ISBN 10) and 9789067652094 (ISBN 13).

In this article, the author attempts to demonstrate that the study of inland fisheries can provide additional insight into the culture of the Meybrat, a tribal community living around the Ayamaru lakes in the northern part of the Western Bird's Head of Irian Jaya. The author discusses the following: the significance of pusaka (sacred hereditary goods) in fishery; the role of ancestor worship and cosmology; the rise of a class of native immigrant 'big men' such as 'bankers' in ikat textiles (kain timur); the role of imported kain pusaka as part of the so-called kain timur-complex; newly discovered aspects of myths from the western and eastern Bird's Head, that are often culturally imposed.