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- Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright, Dedicaiton
- pp. iii-v
- Table of Contents
- p. vii
- Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- Note on Language
- p. xv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-23
- 1. A Dispersed Society
- pp. 25-72
- 2. Pairing and Avoidance
- pp. 73-104
- 3. Strange Kin
- pp. 105-139
- Conclusion
- pp. 255-275
- References
- pp. 291-301
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520943322
Related ISBN(s)
9780520256859
MARC Record
OCLC
574420951
Pages
336
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No