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Power, property and parentage in a central Javanese villageessay 1991 • Hⁿsken, Frans
Javanese • Asia > Southeast Asia
This article is concerned with power, property and parentage in a central Javanese village. It shows that there is far more to Javanese cognatic kinship than nuclear families and personal kindreds. As an evidence, the article documents the great vari...