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Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place
Rupert Stasch
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Paperback. A study that upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. It presents an account of the lives of the Korowai of West Papua, Indonesia, and shows that in this society, people organize their connections to each another around otherness. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 5 line illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
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 of what divides them. Society of Others , ... Read more
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 of what divides them. Society of Others , ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
470g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520256866
SKU
V9780520256866
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About Rupert Stasch
Rupert Stasch is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of California, San Diego.
Reviews for Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place
This well-researched, carefully written ethnography ... contributes to anthropological studies of kinship, social organization, and sociality more generally. Choice This is an ethnography not to be missed: beautifully written, dense with detail, theoretically innovative. I would highly recommend it to all anthropologists.
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