{"product_id":"society-of-others-rupert-stasch-9780520256866","title":"Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place","description":"This important study upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. In a theoretically innovative account of the lives of the Korowai of West Papua, Indonesia, Rupert Stasch shows that in this society, people organize their connections to each another around otherness. Analyzing the Korowai people's famous \"tree house\" dwellings, their patterns of living far apart, and their practices of kinship, marriage, and childbearing and rearing, Stasch argues that the Korowai actively make relations not out of what they have in common, but out of what divides them. \u003ci\u003eSociety of Others, \u003c\/i\u003ethe first anthropological book about the Korowai, offers a picture of Korowai lives sharply at odds with stereotypes of \"tribal\" societies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rupert Stasch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520256867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520256866\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.00w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2010","brand":"Rupert Stasch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44169655419135,"sku":"9780520256866","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_34a1f460-911d-4f05-83bf-57f3c7f853b8.jpg?v=1689654168","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/society-of-others-rupert-stasch-9780520256866","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}