Aurora Donzelli is a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist with an expertise in Southeast Asia, she teaches at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.

"Alongside its rich historical and ethnographic accounts of relevance to Indonesianists–for example, of Toraja landholding disputes and post-Suharto regional autonomy reforms–One or Two Words is a valuable contribution to the linguistic anthropological study of sociality constituted through a politics of representation.”

• List of Maps List of Photographs List of Tables Acknowledgements A Note on Orthography and Transcriptions Introduction Part I: The Politics of Language 1. Subjects of Discourse 2. Narratives of Distinction 3. Grammars of Exchange Part II: The Language of Politics 4. Hierarchies of Language 5. Modes of Power 6. Global Frictions and Local Crossovers Bibliography Index

Aurora Donzelli is a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist with an expertise in Southeast Asia, she teaches at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.

"Alongside its rich historical and ethnographic accounts of relevance to Indonesianists–for example, of Toraja landholding disputes and post-Suharto regional autonomy reforms–One or Two Words is a valuable contribution to the linguistic anthropological study of sociality constituted through a politics of representation.”

• List of Maps List of Photographs List of Tables Acknowledgements A Note on Orthography and Transcriptions Introduction Part I: The Politics of Language 1. Subjects of Discourse 2. Narratives of Distinction 3. Grammars of Exchange Part II: The Language of Politics 4. Hierarchies of Language 5. Modes of Power 6. Global Frictions and Local Crossovers Bibliography Index