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Indonesia - From a Shattered Sun: Hierarchy, Gender, and Alliance in the Tanimbar Islands. By Susan McKinnon. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. Pp. xvii, 324. Photographs, Figures, Glossary, Bibliography, Index.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Maribeth Erb
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National University of Singapore

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