Donald Tuzin

Social Complexity in the Making

A Case Study Among the Arapesh of New Guinea

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Produktbeschreibung

Providing wider perspective of social and cultural evolution within a given society, this highly accessible ethnography explains the history and evolution of Ilahita, an Arapesh-speaking village in New Guinea. This village, unlike others in the region, expanded at an uncharacteristically fast rate more than a century ago and has maintained its large size and importance until the present day. Donald Tuzin, drawing on more than two years of fieldwork in the village, studies the reasons being this unusual population growth. He observes the behavior and politics of the Tambaran, the all-male society which was the back bone of Ilahitan society, and examines the effect of outside influences such as Work War II on the village.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780415228992
• ISBN-10: 0415228999
• Artikelnr.: 21816123

Autorenporträt

Since 1973 Donald Tuzin has taught at the University of California, San Diego, where he is Professor of Anthropology and curator of anthropological archives.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 2 The setting
Chapter 3 History
Chapter 4 How Ilahita got big
Chapter 5 Residence structures
Chapter 6 The dual organization
Chapter 7 The ritual road to hierarchy
Chapter 8 Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
References
Index