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• Preliminary Pages
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Hierarchy, Founder Ideology and Austronesian Expansion
• Chapter 3. The Elder and the Younger — Foreign and Autochthonous Origin and Hierarchy in the Cook Islands
  
• Chapter 4. Rank, Hierarchy and Routes of Migration: Chieftainship in the Central Caroline Islands of Micronesia
• Chapter 5. “All Threads Are White”: Iban Egalitarianism Reconsidered
• Chapter 6. Origin, Hierarchy and Egalitarianism Among the Mandaya of Southeast Mindanao, Philippines
• Chapter 7. The Transformation of Progenitor Lines of Origin: Patterns of Precedence in Eastern Indonesia
• Chapter 8. Origin Structures and Precedence in the Social Orders of Tana ’Ai and Sikka
• Chapter 9. Precedence Among the Domains of the Three Hearth Stones
• Chapter 10. The Founding of the House and the Source of Life: Two Complementary Origin Structures in Buru Society
• Chapter 11. Histories of Diversity, Hierarchies of Unity: The Politics of Origins in a South-West Moluccan Village
• Chapter 12. Rivals and Wives: Affinal Politics and the Tongan Ramage
• Chapter 13. The Politics of Marriage and the Marriage of Polities in Gowa, South Sula Wesi, During the 16th and 17th Centuries
• Chapter 14. The Cultural Construction of Rank, Identity and Ethnic Origins in the Sulu Archipelago
• Contributors