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- Introduction [James J. Fox]
- Part One: Marriage, Alliance, and Exchange
- 1. Principles and Variations in the Structure of Sumbanese Society [Rodney Needham]
- 2. The Marriage Nexus among the Manggarai of West Flores [John L. Gordon]
- 3. Concordance, Structure, and Variation: Considerations of Alliance in Kédang [Robert H. Barnes]
- 4. Obligation and Alliance: State Structure and Moiety Organization in Thie, Roti [James J. Fox]
- 5. The Social Organization of the Ema of Timor [Brigitte Clamagirand]
- 6. Descent, Alliance, and Exchange Ideology among the Makassae of East Timor [Shepard Forman]
- 7. Notes on the Meaning of Marriage Prestations among the Huaulu of Seram [Valerto Valeri]
- Part Two: Systems of Social and Symbolic Classification
- 8. The Significance of Livestock on Sumba [L. Onvlee; translated from the Dutch by James J. Fox and Heriny Fokker-Bakker]
- 9. Structural Aspects of East Sumbanese Art [Marie Jeanne Adams]
- 10. The Order and Significance of the Savunese House [N. L. Kana; translated from the Indonesian by James J. Fox]
- 11. The Symbolic Classification of the Atoni of Timor [H. G. Schulte Nordholt]
- 12. Incursions upon Wehali: A Modern History of an Ancient Empire [Gérard Francillon]
- 13. Boiled Woman and Broiled Man: Myths and Agricultural Rituals of the Bunaq of Central Timor [Claude Friedsero; translated from the French by Elizabeth Traube]
- 14. Mambai Rituals of Black and White [Elizabeth Traube]
- Part Three: Eastern Indonesia as a Field of Ethnological Study
- 15. The Concept of the Field of Ethnological Study [P. E. de Josselin de Jong]
- 16. Models and Metaphors: Comparative Research in Eastern Indonesia [James J. Fox]
- Notes
- References
- Index