Society of others kinship and mourning in a West Papuan place 1st Edition by Rupert Stasch 9780520256866 0520256867

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ISBN 10: 0520256867

ISBN 13: 9780520256866

Author: Rupert Stasch

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 of what divides them. Society of Others, the first anthropological book about the Korowai, offers a picture of Korowai lives sharply at odds with stereotypes of “tribal” societies.

Table of contents:

1. A Dispersed Society

2. Pairing and Avoidance

3. Strange Kin

4. Children and the Contingency of Attachment

5. Marriage as Disruptionand Creation of Belonging

6. Dialectics of Contactand Separation in Mourning

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