Society of others: kinship and mourning in a West Papuan place

This 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 organise their connections to each other...

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1. Verfasser: Stasch, Rupert (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley [u.a.] Univ. of California Press 2009
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Zusammenfassung:This 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 organise their connections to each other around otherness.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XV, 317 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:9780520256859
9780520256866

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