Rice, Rupees, and RitualIn this ethnographic study of the small mountain village of Huta Ginjang in the Samosir area of northern Sumatra, the author pursues three main themes: the role of rice in the Batak economy of feasting, and the cultural ecology of dry and flooded field rice growing. Two important questions emerge: How did the social and economic changes resulting from Dutch colonization particularly the adoption of money as a medium of exchange affect Samosir Batak