The power of perspective social ontology and agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu / Knut Mikjel Rio
- Bib ID:
- 4103249
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Rio, Knut Mikjel
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- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- New York : Berghahn Books, 2007
- xvii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781845452933
- Summary:
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"Focusing on different forms of agency in North Ambrym social life, the author demonstrates the potency of outsiders at different times and in different situations in Ambrym society. This model challenges the premises of much Western thinking about reciprocity, and suggests new directions in the analysis of Melanesian societies."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction
- Kinship and sand drawing
- The totalising third party
- The spirals of marriage
- Of yams and men
- The intentionality of ceremonial agency
- Displaying life after death
- The phenomenology of Ambrym exchange
- Conclusions: Denying the gift.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- 2007
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