Marriage, alliance, inter-religious coexistence and ethnicity among the Riung of Flores, Eastern Indonesia

While Islam and Christianity tend in the national discourse to be perceived as highly contradictory, the Riung of Flores (Eastern Indonesia), Moslems and Catholics alike, view them as non mutually exclusive categories. As the local system of social organization and kinship and the asymmetrical relationship between wife givers and wife takers remain momentous, ancestral and matrimonial alliances still sustain social relations, irrespective of differing faiths. Just like the historical local conversion to Christianity and Islam, current