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Tables of Contents for The Play of Time
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
vii
1
List of Tables
viii
1
Preface
ix
8
Acknowledgments
xvii
2
Note on Transcription
xix
Introduction: The Land and People Of Kodi
1
28
PART ONE THE KODI CONSTRUCTION OF THE PAST
29
144
1. The Imported Past: Foreign Sources of Power
29
29
2. The Local Origins of Time: The Day, Month, and Seasons
58
22
3. The Past in Narrative: The Creation of the Calendar
80
38
4. The Past in Objects: The Colonial Encounter
118
24
5. The Past in Action: The Rites of the Kodi Year
142
31
PART TWO EXCHANGE SEQUENCES AND STRATEGIES
173
100
6. Exchanges Over Time: Continuities Between Past and Present
173
29
7. Time as Value: Taking the Bull by the Horns
202
19
8. Contested Time: The Feast in Dream Village
221
23
9. Death and the End of Time: Final Exchanges
244
29
PART THREE LOCAL TIME AND THE ENCOUNTER WITH "HISTORY"
273
110
10. A New Order of Time: Church and State
273
33
11. The Past as Ideology: New Heroes, New Histories
306
27
12. The Embattled Chronologer: The Politics of the Calendar
333
30
13. Revolutions in Time, Revolutions in Consciousness
363
20
Bibliographic References
383
20
Index
403