1st Edition
Social Complexity in the Making A Case Study Among the Arapesh of New Guinea
By Donald Tuzin
Copyright 2001
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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Social Complexity in the Making is a highly accessible ethnography which explains the history and evolution of Ilahita, an Arapesh-speaking village in the interior Sepik region of northeastern New Guinea. This village, unlike others in the region, expanded at an uncharacteristically fast rate more than a century ago and has maintained its large size (more than 1500) and importance until the... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 2 The setting; Chapter 3 History; Chapter 4 How Ilahita got big; Chapter 5 Residence structures; Chapter 6 The dual organization; Chapter 7 The ritual road to hierarchy; Chapter 8 Conclusion; Notes; Glossary; References; Index;
Biography
Since 1973 Donald Tuzin has taught at the University of California, San Diego, where he is Professor of Anthropology and curator of anthropological archives.
