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Living Kinship in the Pacific

Beschreibung

Provides strong accounts of contemporary understandings of kinship in the Pacific. The ethnographic focus is on transformation and continuity over time. Describes how kinship is constituted in day-to-day ritual and ritualized behavior.

Autor

Christina Toren is Professor of Anthropology and founding Director of the Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of St Andrews. Her works include Mind, Materiality and History (1999) and The Challenge of Epistemology (co-edited with João de Pina-Cabral, 2012).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9781782385776
• ISBN-10: 1782385770
• Artikelnr.: 42689854