{"product_id":"oceanic-socialities-and-cultural-forms-ethnographies-of-experience-9781571815583","title":"Oceanic Socialities and Cultural Forms:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tIn 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. These essays attempt a new kind of ethnographic description of social life that treats structure and practice as aspects of the same reality. This is achieved through attention to indigenous conceptualizations of the way society itself is generated.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tWith Jonathan Friedman and Fredrik Barth providing overviews, this series of innovative ethnographies highlights ways of forming social relations specific to Oceania as a cultural area, exemplifying a new kind of comparative approach and making a major contribution to general social theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJonathan Friedman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Sociality as Figure: Bendami Perceptions of Social Relationships\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Fighting Hierarchy: Relations of Egality and Hierarchy among the May River Iwam of Papua New Guinea\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Landscapes of Socialities: Paths, Places and Belonging on Wogeo Island, Papua New Guinea\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Disentangling the Butubutu of New Georgia: Cognatic Kinship in Thought and Action\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Pathway and Side: An Essay Onotoan Notions of Relatedness\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Making Sides: On the Production of Contexts and Difference in Tokelau\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e 'The Other Kind': Representing Otherness and Living with it on Kotu Island in Tonga\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e 'Maori are Different, but We are Similar for Particular Reasons': Dynamics of Belonging in Social Practice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041423655255,"sku":"9781571815583","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781571815583.jpg?v=1750950217","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/oceanic-socialities-and-cultural-forms-ethnographies-of-experience-9781571815583","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}