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After the ancestors : an anthropologist's story

Beatty, Andrew

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\"After the Ancestors The passage from pagan to Christian and tribesman to citizen has been exhaustively documented, but the people who make up that story have mostly been written out of it. This account, set in Nias, Indonesia, captures the human dilemmas attending the world- historical transformation from tribalism to modernity. The author allows the complexity of the issues - the hold of the past on the present, perspectives on life and death, vengeance and morality - to emerge through dramatic encounters. Innovative and personally challenging, this book is about a radically different world and the search for a common humanity that underlies cultural difference. It is also about the process of coming to understand another society and the formation of an anthropologist. Interweaving a gripping narrative of fieldwork with the drama of life in a tribal society in extremis, this book is essential reading for students of anthropology and the general reader alike\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Beatty, Andrew Travel Indonesia Nias Island. / Niasese (Indonesian people) Indonesia Nias Island Social life and customs. / Niasese (Indonesian people) Indonesia Nias Island Social conditions. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. / Nias Island (Indonesia) Social life and customs. / Nias Island (Indonesia) Social conditions.
• ISBN: 9781107477407, 1107477409, 9781107094789, 110709478X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DS632.N52 B43 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE