Social and ecological systems by Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth,

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See Fox (1971a) for partial documentation of one such dynastic genealogy. 14. The population of Termanu and Thie: Area in sq. km. 1831* 1863 1921 1961 5,759 Termanu: 177 1,900 7,523 4,586 Thie: 93 3,400 8,136 7,911 12,116 *I am sceptical about the 1831 census as a valuable base line especially for Termanu. These figures were used to determine levies of men. They were taken before borders were clearly demarcated and, in the case of Termanu, just after a segment of the domain's population had been moved to Timor.

But since the Commissaris' actions were seriously questioned at the time and were cited in the nineteenth century colonial literature as an example of gross misconduct, there exist some publications on the subject. See Chrijs (1872) and Leupe (1877). The unpublished literature is considerably larger. 4. Hence these villages replicate much of the structure of a Rotinese domain and have remained more or less intact as such for over a hundred years. 5. It ought to be noted that the Rotinese naming system could work equally well through males or females or through some combination of male and A Tale of Two Rotinese States 6.

But knowledge of this event can serve to highlight other more general features of the colonial situation. The question is why Landu was not rapidly repopulated in the nineteenth century. Again, the answer to this is not to be found in an ecological explanation. It lies in the sphere of politics and specifically in the political control by local rulers of their subjects - a control which the Dutch sanctioned and enforced. F r o m the earliest records of the seventeenth century, the Rotinese were consistently represented as a fractious and disputatious population.

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