On the value of the beast or the limit of money: Notes on the meaning of marriage prestations among the Ngadha, central Flores (Indonesia)

Hierarchy: Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 269-297

  Smedal, Olaf H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

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