From a shattered sun: hierarchy, gender and alliance in the tanimbar islands
Auteur :
McKinnon, Susan
Éditeur :
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN :
9780299131548
Date de publication :
30 déc. 1991
Dimensions :
23,1 x 15,6 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
462 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Among a growing number of ethnographies of Eastern Indonesia that deal with cosmology, exchange and kinship, this book confronts issues originally broached by Edmund Leach and Claude Levi-Strauss, concerning the relation between hierarchy and equality in asymmetric systems of marriage.