Houses in the Rainforest

Houses in the Rainforest
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 9780520915664
ISBN-13 : 0520915666
Rating : 4/5 (666 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Houses in the Rainforest by : Roy Richard Grinker

Download or read book Houses in the Rainforest written by Roy Richard Grinker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies), learned their languages, and gained unique insights into their complex social relations and ethnic identities. By showing how political organization is structured by ethnic and gender relations in the Lese house, Grinker challenges previous views of the Lese and Efe and other farmer-forager societies, as well as the conventional anthropological boundary between domestic and political contexts.


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