Oceanic Socialities and Cultural Forms (eBook, PDF)

Ethnographies of Experience
Redaktion: Hoëm, Ingjerd; Roalkvam, Sidsel

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Produktbeschreibung

In anthropology, theoretical approaches attempting to come to terms with experiences of social interaction, often inspired by phenomenology, have come to the fore in opposition to the previously favored emphasis on symbolic and social structures. These essays attempt a new kind of ethnographic description of social life that treats structure and practice as aspects of the same reality. This is achieved through attention to indigenous conceptualizations of the way society itself is generated.

With Jonathan Friedman and Fredrik Barth providing overviews, this series of innovative ethnographies highlights ways of forming social relations specific to Oceania as a cultural area, exemplifying a new kind of comparative approach and making a major contribution to general social theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789204223
• Artikelnr.: 58985113

Autorenporträt

Ingjerd Hoëm is Head of the Institute for Pacific Archaeology and Cultural History at the Kon-Tiki Museum.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Jonathan Friedman
Chapter 1. Sociality as Figure: Bendami Perceptions of Social Relationships
Chapter 2. Fighting Hierarchy: Relations of Egality and Hierarchy among the
May River Iwam of Papua New Guinea
Chapter 3. Landscapes of Socialities: Paths, Places and Belonging on Wogeo
Island, Papua New Guinea
Chapter 4. Disentangling the Butubutu of New Georgia: Cognatic Kinship in
Thought and Action
Chapter 5. Pathway and Side: An Essay Onotoan Notions of Relatedness
Chapter 6. Making Sides: On the Production of Contexts and Difference in
Tokelau
Chapter 7. 'The Other Kind': Representing Otherness and Living with it on
Kotu Island in Tonga
Chapter 8. 'Maori are Different, but We are Similar for Particular
Reasons': Dynamics of Belonging in Social Practice
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index