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...

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1. Verfasser: Stasch, Rupert
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 317 p.)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-301) and index.
ISBN:9780520943322
0520943325
9786612360893
6612360895

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