Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place Tapa blanda - 2009 - 1st Edición
de Rupert Stasch
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"In this timely commentary on the ideas of difference, strangeness, and Western contact, Stasch weaves ethnographic materials together with theoretical framing in an exceptionally clear and compelling way. A highly original, important and, in fact, astonishing piece of scholarship."--Bambi Schieffelin, author of The Give and Take of Everyday Life
"In this remarkable ethnography, Rupert Stasch takes us to the lowlands of West Papua and into the lives of people who have built a social world out of their relationships with strange and potentially dangerous others. The Korowai are classic inhabitants of the "savage slot," still dogged by their designation as Stone Age primitives. Instead of flipping the script and arguing that the Korowai are just like everyone else, Stasch draws far-reaching lessons from the particularities of Korowai life. Stasch writes with grace and clarity on the ambivalent ways in which the Korowai confront, evade, and embrace an otherness that resides not just in words, food, places, and human bodies, but also in the pasts and futures brought to mind by these material signs. Analyzing Korowai sign use as a concrete, historical process, he charts the passage between intimacy and alterity that Korowai undergo in their encounters not only with spirits and Indonesian soldiers, but also with children, husbands, and wives. Some of what Stasch describes may seem strange and even disturbing. But in pondering Stasch's findings, one gradually comes to see the making of persons and relationships in an entirely new light. Gone is the old debate between biological determination and cultural freedom; in its place is an approach that affirms the multiple histories that converge in and flow from a life. Erudite, empathetic, and unremittingly smart, Society of Others recasts the very meaning of kinship--and makes a case for the power of what anthropologists do."--Danilyn Rutherford, author of Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier
Detalles
- Título Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place
- Autor Rupert Stasch
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Número de edición 1st
- Edición 1
- Páginas 336
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
- Fecha de publicación 2009-06-02
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520256866 / 0520256867
- Peso 1.03 libras (0.47 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.04 x 6 x 0.81 pulgadas (22.96 x 15.24 x 2.06 cm)
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Temas
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects Papua (Indonesia) - Social life and customs, Ethnology - Indonesia - Papua
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2008040618
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.899
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