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...
This important study upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. In a theoretically in...
The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944 98) was best known for his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern Indonesia. This volume, however, presents a lesser-known side of Valeri s genius through a dazzlingly erudite set of comparative essays on core topics in the history of anthropological theory. Offering masterly discussions of anthropological thought about ritual, fetishism, cosmogonic myth, belief, caste, kingship, mourning, play, feasting, ceremony, and cultural relativism, ClassicConcepts in Anthropology, presented here with a critical foreword...
The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944 98) was best known for his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern Indonesia. This ...
