Format:
XV, 317 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
ISBN:
9780520256859
,
9780520256866
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Korowai
;
Verwandtschaft
;
Trauer