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
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stasch, Rupert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Temas:
Ethnology > Indonesia > Papua.
Kinship > Indonesia > Papua.
Mourning customs > Indonesia > Papua.
Ethnopsychology > Indonesia > Papua.
Ethnologie > Indonésie > Papouasie occidentale.
Parenté > Indonésie > Papouasie occidentale.
Deuil > Coutumes > Indonésie > Papouasie occidentale.
Ethnopsychologie > Indonésie > Papouasie occidentale.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnology.
Ethnopsychology.
Kinship.
Manners and customs.
Mourning customs.
Korowai (volk)
Sociale relaties.
Sociale structuur.
Papua (Indonesia) > Social life and customs.
Papouasie occidentale (Indonésie) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Indonesia > Papua.
Papua (Indonesië)
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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