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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
c2009.
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| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnqgw |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- 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.