Society of others : kinship and mourning in a West Papuan place /
This important study upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. In a theoretically innovative account of the lives of the Korowai of West Papua, Indonesia, Rupert Stasch shows that in this society, people organize their connections to...
| Основен автор: | Stasch, Rupert. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
℗♭2009.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=305977 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Society of others. |
| Резюме: |
This important study upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. In a theoretically innovative account of the lives of the Korowai of West Papua, Indonesia, Rupert Stasch shows that in this society, people organize their connections to each another around otherness. Analyzing the Korowai people's famous "tree house" dwellings, their patterns of living far apart, and their practices of kinship, marriage, and childbearing and rearing, Stasch argues that the Korowai actively make relations not out of what they have in common, but out. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xv, 317 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-301) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780520943322 0520943325 0520256867 9780520256866 |