Editing Flores (section)

=== Social organisation ===

The traditional social structure is based on complex extended family ties, where patrilinear and matrilinear lineages are at play and determine a strict social hierarchy within villages.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Forth|first1=Gregory|date=2009b|title=Human beings and other people: Classification of human groups and categories among the Nage of Flores (eastern Indonesia)|journal=Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde|volume=165|issue=4|pages=493–514|doi=10.1163/22134379-90003630|jstor=43817775|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43817775|access-date=2024-06-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Sudarmadi|first1=Tular|year=2014|title=Between colonial legacies and grassroots movements: exploring cultural heritage practice in the Ngadha and Manggarai Region of Flores|type=doctorate thesis in History, Art and Culture|location=University of Amsterdam|url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/19884832.pdf}}</ref> It is similar to that in Lembata, [[East Nusa Tenggara]];{{sfn|Barnes|1996|loc=see Appendix I}} and is reflected in the spiderweb disposition of the rice fields around Cancar (16&nbsp;km west of Ruteng): started as a pie centered on the point where buffaloes are sacrificed, the allotments originally shaped as pie slices were later divided transversally by the heirs.<ref>{{cite web|title=Spider Web Rice Fields, Ruteng|website=atlasobscura.com|url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/spider-web-rice-fields|access-date=2024-06-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Cancar and rice fields, satellite view|website=google.com/maps|url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir//C96H%2BJ66+Cancar,+Wae+Belang,+Kec.+Ruteng,+Kabupaten+Manggarai,+Nusa+Tenggara+Tim.,+Indon%C3%A9sie/@-8.5904209,120.3699112,3947m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m8!4m7!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x2db37737ca7a8261:0x4a0af5e723f63f56!2m2!1d120.3780143!2d-8.5884555?entry=ttu}}</ref>