Society of others : kinship and mourning in a West Papuan place

Society of others kinship and mourning in a West Papuan place

This 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 organise their connections to each other...

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1. Verfasser: Stasch, Rupert (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley u.a. Univ. of California Press 2009
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Korowai (volk) > Sociale relaties > Sociale structuur > Alltag, Brauchtum > Ethnology > Kinship > Mourning customs > Ethnopsychology > Korowai > Verwandtschaft > Trauer > Papua (Indonesië) > Papua (Indonesia) > Social life and customs
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Zusammenfassung:This 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 organise their connections to each other around otherness.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XV, 317 S.
Ill., Kt.
ISBN:9780520256859
978-0-520-25685-9
9780520256866
978-0-520-25686-6