Power of Perspective
Subtitle: Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: April 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781845452933
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; Nonfiction / Social Science; Sociology - General; Social Science; Ambrym; Ethnology; Kinship; Rites and ceremonies; Vanuatu; Sociology
Description: "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.