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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.

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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

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , September 1993 , pp. 413 - 416
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1993

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