Society of others : kinship and mourning in a West Papuan place /

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...

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Main Author: Stasch, Rupert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
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