The power of strangers in Flores and Timor
Pitt-Rivers notes that the stranger is dangerous and sacred because he belongs to an extraordinary world and must be "socialised, that is to say secularised, a process which necessarily involves inversion." A striking feature of the traditional histories of several local state structures i...
Autor Principal: | Barnes, R |
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Formato: | Journal article |
Idioma: | English |
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Anthropos Institute
2008
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