Rupert Stasch  | Univ of California Pr

58,580원  | 20101127  | 9780520256866

A study that upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. It presents an account of the lives of the Korowai of West Papua, Indonesia, and shows that in this society, people organize their connections to each another around otherness.

Rupert Stasch  | Univ of California LA Inst

0원  | 20090602  | 9780520256859

This important study upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on identification and shared experience. In a theoretically innovative account of the lives of Korowai of West Papua, Indonesia, Rupert Stasch shows that in this society, people organize their connections with each another around otherness. Analyzing 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 Korowai actively make relations not just out of what they have in common, but out of what divides them.Society of Others, the first anthropological book about Korowai, offers a picture of Korowai lives sharply at odds with stereotypes of "tribal" society to which they are often assimilated. This moving account of how Korowai create and inhabit their social worlds, both seen and unseen, suggests novel answers to old and important questions about the character of social bonds.