From a Shattered Sun:Hierarchy, Gender, and Alliance in the Tanimbar Islands

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ISBN: 9780299131548
Dewey: 306.089922
LCC Number: DS632
Author: Susan McKinnon
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Pages: 324
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Description

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.

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Weight 1.01 lbs
Dimensions 9.1 × 6.16 × 0.78 in
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