TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rio,Knut Mikjel
TI  - The Power of Perspective: Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu 
SN  - 9781800735163
AV  - GN671.N6 R66 2007
U1  - 306.099595 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Ceremonial exchange
KW  - Vanuatu
KW  - Ambrym
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Kinship
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800735163?locatt=mode:legacy
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ER  -