Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place

Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place

by Rupert Stasch (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 334
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 02 Jun 2009

ISBN 10: 0520256867
ISBN 13: 9780520256866