Society of Others : Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Stasch, Rupert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sociale structuur.
Sociale relaties.
Korowai (volk)
Mourning customs.
Manners and customs.
Kinship.
Ethnopsychology.
Ethnology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Ethnopsychologie > Indonesie > Papouasie occidentale.
Deuil > Coutumes > Indonesie > Papouasie occidentale.
Parente > Indonesie > Papouasie occidentale.
Ethnologie > Indonesie > Papouasie occidentale.
Ethnopsychology > Indonesia > Papua.
Mourning customs > Indonesia > Papua.
Kinship > Indonesia > Papua.
Ethnology > Indonesia > Papua.
Papua (Indonesië)
Indonesia > Papua.
Papouasie occidentale (Indonesie) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Papua (Indonesia) > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: otherness as a relation
  • A dispersed society: place ownership and the crossing of spatial margins
  • Pairing and avoidance: an otherness-focused approach to social ties
  • Strange kin: maternal uncles and the spectrum of relatives
  • Children and the contingency of attachment
  • Marriage as disruption and creation of belonging
  • Dialectics of contact and separation in mourning
  • Conclusion.

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