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

Stasch, Rupert

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009

Online Ressource (xv, 317 p.) : ill., maps.

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-301) and index. - Description based on print version record

Erscheint auch als: Stasch, Rupert : Society of others. - Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-520-94332-2 (electronic bk.); 0-520-94332-5 (electronic bk.)

0-520-25686-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-520-25686-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 9786612360893 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 6612360895 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-520-25685-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-520-25685-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-282-36089-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-282-36089-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-520-25685-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 574420951 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

GN635.I65

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LOC-SH: Ethnology -- Indonesia -- Papua ; Kinship -- Indonesia -- Papua ; Mourning customs -- Indonesia -- Papua ; Ethnopsychology -- Indonesia -- Papua ; Papua (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs -- Papua (Indonesië) -- Indonesia -- Papua ; Electronic books ; Ethnology -- Indonesia -- Papua ; Kinship -- Indonesia -- Papua ; Mourning customs -- Indonesia -- Papua ; Ethnopsychology -- Indonesia -- Papua ; Papua (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs

Electronic books ; Indonesia ; Papua ; Papua (Indonesië) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Ethnology ; Ethnopsychology ; Kinship ; Manners and customs ; Mourning customs ; Korowai (volk) ; Sociale relaties ; Sociale structuur

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