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The power of perspective : social ontology and agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu

Title
The power of perspective : social ontology and agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu / Knut Mikjel Rio.
Author
Rio, Knut Mikjel.
Publication
New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

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Description
xviii, 270 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-254) and index.
Contents
Foreword : 'putting people first' -- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Kinship and sand drawing -- Ch. 3. The totalising third party -- Ch. 4. The spirals of marriage -- Ch. 5. Of yams and men -- Ch. 6. The intentionality of ceremonial agency -- Ch. 7. Displaying life after death -- Ch. 8. The phenomenology of ambrym exchange -- Ch. 9. Conclusions : denying the gift.
ISBN
  • 9781845452933 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 1845452933 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007008597
OCLC
  • OCM85830691
  • 85830691
  • SCSB-5352070
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries