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The Power of Perspective : Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu / Knut Mikjel Rio.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2007]Copyright date: 2007Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781800735163
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.099595 22
LOC classification:
  • GN671.N6 R66 2007
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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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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

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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