Research Catalog

Title

Houses in the rain forest : ethnicity and inequality among farmers and foragers in Central Africa / Roy Richard Grinker.

Author

Grinker, Roy Richard, 1961-

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1994.

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Description

xviii, 225 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies), learned their languages, and gained unique insights into their complex social relations and ethnic identities. By showing how political organization is structured by ethnic and gender relations in the Lese house, Grinker challenges previous views of the Lese and Efe and other farmer-forager societies, as well as the conventional anthropological boundary between domestic and political contexts."--Publisher description.

Alternative Title

• Houses in the rainforest.
• Houses in the rainforest

Subject

• Efe (African people) > Hunting
• Efe (African people) > Ethnic identity
• Hunting and gathering societies > Ituri Forest
• Lese (African people) > Agriculture
• Lese (African people) > Ethnic identity
• Agriculture > Social aspects > Ituri Forest
• Ituri Forest (Congo) > Ethnic relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-217) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Note on Language and Orthography -- 1. Introduction: From Tribes to Ethnic Groups -- 2. The History and Isolation of the Lese -- 3. Gender and Ethnicity -- 4. The House and the Economy -- 5. Witchcraft and the Opposition of Houses -- 6. Conclusion: A Union of Opposites.

ISBN

• 0520083571 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520089758 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^93036600^

OCLC

28963508

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library