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...

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Autore principale: Barnes, R
Natura: Journal article
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Anthropos Institute 2008
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