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Society of others kinship and mourning in a West Papuan place

Title: Society of others [electronic resource] : 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

1 online resource (xv, 317 p.) : ill., maps.

Uniform Title

Society of others (Online)

Alternative Title

Society of others (Online)

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.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

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