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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Stasch, Rupert
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (336 pages).
ISBN:9780520943322

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