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
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 societiesHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Knut Mikjel Rio is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in Vanuatu in the western Pacific, and research themes relate to ideas about social ontology, production and ceremonial and the relation between the monetary economy and sorcery in Vanuatu.
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List of maps and illustrations Foreword: "Putting people first" Acknowledgements Note on language Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Kinship and sand-drawing Chapter 3. The totalising third party Chapter 4. The circles of marriage Chapter 5. Of yams and men Chapter 6. The intentionality of ceremonial agency Chapter 7. Displaying life after Death Chapter 8. The phenomenology of Ambrym exchange Chapter 9. Conclusions: Denying the gift Appendices Bibliography Index
List of maps and illustrations Foreword: "Putting people first" Acknowledgements Note on language Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Kinship and sand-drawing Chapter 3. The totalising third party Chapter 4. The circles of marriage Chapter 5. Of yams and men Chapter 6. The intentionality of ceremonial agency Chapter 7. Displaying life after Death Chapter 8. The phenomenology of Ambrym exchange Chapter 9. Conclusions: Denying the gift Appendices Bibliography Index
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