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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Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Stasch, Rupert
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Berkeley : University of California Press c2009.
Online-ссылка:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnqgw
Оглавление:
  • 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.