Becoming An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java

Becoming An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java
ISBN-10
0857285319
ISBN-13
9780857285317
Category
Social Science
Pages
252
Language
English
Published
2012-08-15
Publisher
Anthem Press
Author
Konstantinos Retsikas

Description

‘Becoming – An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java’ is an ethnographic monograph that examines the ways in which the peoples of a peri-urban locality in East Java, Indonesia conceive of the person, by looking at how their everyday practices relate to understandings of ethnicity, kinship, Islam and gender. The volume is also a thought experiment that aims to make a theoretical contribution to the discipline of anthropology by proposing the concept of the ‘diaphoron’ person and re-deploying the method of ‘total ethnography’.

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