{"product_id":"from-a-shattered-sun-hierarchy-gender-and-alliance-in-the-tanimbar-islands-paperback","title":"From a Shattered Sun: Hierarchy, Gender, and Alliance in the Tanimbar Islands - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan McKinnon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong a growing number of ethnographies of eastern Indonesia that deal with cosmology, exchange, and kinship, \u003ci\u003eFrom a Shattered Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is the first to address squarely issues originally broached by Edmund Leach and Claude Lévi-Strauss concerning the relation between hierarchy and equality in asymmetric systems of marriage.\u003cbr\u003e On the basis of extensive fieldwork in the Tamimbar islands, Susan McKinnon analyzes the simultaneous presence of both closed, asymmetric cycles and open, asymmetric pathways of alliance-of both egalitarian and hierarchical configurations. In addition, Tamimbarese society is marked by the existence of multiple, differentially valued forms of marriage, affiliation, and residence. Rather than seeing these various forms as analytically separable types, McKinnon demonstrates that it is only by viewing them as integrally related-in terms of culturally specific understandings of \"houses,\" gender, and exchange-that one can perceive the processes through which hierarchy and equality are created.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan McKinnon is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 342\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 9.1 x 6.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 1991\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42113365213264,"sku":"9780299131548","price":51.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/U3g5U0pITFdrM3ZSMHhaQkVBRkxxdz09.webp?v=1772664565","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/from-a-shattered-sun-hierarchy-gender-and-alliance-in-the-tanimbar-islands-paperback","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}