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 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, the first anthropological book about the Korowai, offers a picture of Korowai lives sharply at odds with stereotypes of "tribal" societies.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520256866 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 19 Jun 2009 |
DEWEY: | 305.89912 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 288 |
Weight: | 522g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 21mm |