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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 30, 1991 |
| ISBN13 | 9780299131548 |
| Publishers | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Pages | 352 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 231 × 19 mm · 462 g |
| Language | English |