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

Title
Society of others : kinship and mourning in a West Papuan place / Rupert Stasch.
Author
Stasch, Rupert.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

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Description
xv, 317 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Ethnology > Indonesia > Papua
  • Kinship > Indonesia > Papua
  • Mourning customs > Indonesia > Papua
  • Ethnopsychology > Indonesia > Papua
  • Papua (Indonesia) > Social life and customs
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-301) and index.
Contents
Introduction: otherness as a relation -- A dispersed society: place ownership and the crossing of spatial margins -- Pairing and avoidance: an otherness-focused approach to social ties -- Strange kin: maternal uncles and the spectrum of relatives -- Children and the contingency of attachment -- Marriage as disruption and creation of belonging -- Dialectics of contact and separation in mourning -- Conclusion.
Call Number
JFE 09-3164
ISBN
  • 9780520256859 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520256859 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780520256866 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0520256867 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008040618
OCLC
259715938
Author
Stasch, Rupert.
Title
Society of others : kinship and mourning in a West Papuan place / Rupert Stasch.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-301) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 09-3164
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