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From a Shattered Sun: Hierarchy, Gender and Alliance in the Tanimbar Islands
Susan McKinnon
From a Shattered Sun: Hierarchy, Gender and Alliance in the Tanimbar Islands
Susan McKinnon
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.
352 pages, 28 half-tones, 2 maps
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | December 15, 1991 |
Original release date | 1992 |
ISBN13 | 9780299131548 |
Publishers | University of Wisconsin Press |
Pages | 352 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 20 mm · 458 g |
Language | English |
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