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Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place
Rupert Stasch
Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place
Rupert Stasch
A study that upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. It presents an account of the lives of the Korowai of West Papua, Indonesia, and shows that in this society, people organize their connections to each another around otherness.
336 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 5 line illustrations, 2 maps
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | June 2, 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9780520256866 |
Publishers | University of California Press |
Pages | 336 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 21 mm · 522 g |