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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964174303321

Titolo

Oceanic socialities and cultural forms : ethnographies of experience / / edited by Ingjerd Hoëm and Sidsel Roalkvam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2003

ISBN

1-57181-558-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 214 p. )

Altri autori (Persone)

HoëmIngjerd

RoalkvamSidsel

Disciplina

305.8/00995

Soggetti

Ethnology - Oceania - Methodology

Ethnology - Research - Oceania

Social structure - Oceania

Oceania Social life and customs Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on a seminar held in Oslo in 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Oceanic Socialities and Cultural Forms -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Sociality as Figure -- Chapter 3. Fighting Hierarchy -- Chapter 4. Landscapes of Sociality -- Chapter 5. Disentangling the Butubutu of New Georgia -- Chapter 6. Pathway and Side -- Chapter 7. Making Sides -- Chapter 8. 'The Other Kind' -- Chapter 9. 'Maori are Different, but We are Similar for Particular Reasons' -- Chapter 10. Epilogue -- List of Contributors -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.