The Power of Perspective : Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu / Knut Mikjel Rio.
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TextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2007]Copyright date: 2007Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type: - 9781800735163
- 306.099595 22
- GN671.N6 R66 2007
- online - DeGruyter
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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
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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
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In English.
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