The Power of Perspective : Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu /
Rio, Knut Mikjel
The Power of Perspective : Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu / Knut Mikjel Rio. - 1 online resource (272 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Etul and yams -- List of Figures -- Foreword: ‘Putting People First’ -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Language -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Kinship and Sand Drawing -- Chapter 3 The Totalising Third Party -- Chapter 4 The Spirals 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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781800735163
10.1515/9781800735163 doi
Ceremonial exchange--Vanuatu--Ambrym.
Ethnology--Vanuatu--Ambrym.
Kinship--Vanuatu--Ambrym.
Rites and ceremonies--Vanuatu--Ambrym.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
GN671.N6 / R66 2007
306.099595
The Power of Perspective : Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu / Knut Mikjel Rio. - 1 online resource (272 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Etul and yams -- List of Figures -- Foreword: ‘Putting People First’ -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Language -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Kinship and Sand Drawing -- Chapter 3 The Totalising Third Party -- Chapter 4 The Spirals 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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781800735163
10.1515/9781800735163 doi
Ceremonial exchange--Vanuatu--Ambrym.
Ethnology--Vanuatu--Ambrym.
Kinship--Vanuatu--Ambrym.
Rites and ceremonies--Vanuatu--Ambrym.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
GN671.N6 / R66 2007
306.099595