Society of Others
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anthropology
attachment
Author_Rupert Stasch
avoidance
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child rearing
childbearing
contact and separation
creation of belonging
death
disruption
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ethnography
family
human relations
indonesia
indonesian culture
indonesian society
kin
kinship
korowai of west papua
living far apart
marriage
mourning
otherness
place ownership
relatives
shared experiences
small scale societies
social organization
social ties
sociality
spatial margins
tragedy
tree house dwellings
trial society
Product details
- ISBN 9780520256866
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jun 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 out of what divides them. "Society of Others", the first anthropological book about the Korowai, offers a picture of Korowai lives sharply at odds with stereotypes of 'tribal' societies.
Rupert Stasch is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of California, San Diego.
