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Oceanic Socialities and Cultural Forms : Ethnographies of Experience / ed. by Sidsel Roalkvam, Ingjerd Hoëm.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2003]Copyright date: 2003Description: 1 online resource (226 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789204223
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8/00995
LOC classification:
  • GN662 .O257 2003
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sociality as Figure: Bedamini Perceptions of Social Relationships -- 3 Fighting Hierarchy: Relations of Egality and Hierarchy among the May River Iwam of Papua New Guinea -- 4 Landscapes of Sociality: Paths, Places and Belonging on Wogeo Island, Papua New Guinea -- 5 Disentangling the Butubutu of New Georgia: Cognatic Kinship in Thought and Action -- 6 Pathway and Side: An Essay on Onotoan Notions of Relatedness -- 7 Making Sides: On the Production of Contexts and Difference in Tokelau -- 8 ‘The Other Kind’: Representing Otherness and Living with it on Kotu Island in Tonga -- 9 ‘Maori are Different, but We are Similar for Particular Reasons’: Dynamics of Belonging in Social Practice -- 10 Epilogue -- List of Contributors -- I n d e x
Summary: In anthropology, theoretical approaches attempting to come to terms with experiences of social interaction, often inspired by phenomenology, have come to the fore in opposition to the previously favored emphasis on symbolic and social structures. These essays attempt a new kind of ethnographic description of social life that treats structure and practice as aspects of the same reality. This is achieved through attention to indigenous conceptualizations of the way society itself is generated. With Jonathan Friedman and Fredrik Barth providing overviews, this series of innovative ethnographies highlights ways of forming social relations specific to Oceania as a cultural area, exemplifying a new kind of comparative approach and making a major contribution to general social theory.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sociality as Figure: Bedamini Perceptions of Social Relationships -- 3 Fighting Hierarchy: Relations of Egality and Hierarchy among the May River Iwam of Papua New Guinea -- 4 Landscapes of Sociality: Paths, Places and Belonging on Wogeo Island, Papua New Guinea -- 5 Disentangling the Butubutu of New Georgia: Cognatic Kinship in Thought and Action -- 6 Pathway and Side: An Essay on Onotoan Notions of Relatedness -- 7 Making Sides: On the Production of Contexts and Difference in Tokelau -- 8 ‘The Other Kind’: Representing Otherness and Living with it on Kotu Island in Tonga -- 9 ‘Maori are Different, but We are Similar for Particular Reasons’: Dynamics of Belonging in Social Practice -- 10 Epilogue -- List of Contributors -- I n d e x

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In anthropology, theoretical approaches attempting to come to terms with experiences of social interaction, often inspired by phenomenology, have come to the fore in opposition to the previously favored emphasis on symbolic and social structures. These essays attempt a new kind of ethnographic description of social life that treats structure and practice as aspects of the same reality. This is achieved through attention to indigenous conceptualizations of the way society itself is generated. With Jonathan Friedman and Fredrik Barth providing overviews, this series of innovative ethnographies highlights ways of forming social relations specific to Oceania as a cultural area, exemplifying a new kind of comparative approach and making a major contribution to general social theory.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

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