Houses in the Rainforest

Ethnicity and Inequality Among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa

Roy Richard Grinker (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

244 Seiten

1994
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-08975-4 (ISBN)

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This is an ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire. The author lived among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (pygmies), for two years, learning their language and studying their complex social relations and ethnic identities.

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.

Roy Richard Grinker is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at George Washington University.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on Language and Orthography

1. Introduction: From Tribes to Ethnic Groups
2. The History and Isolation of the Lese
3. Gender and Ethnicity
4. The House and the Economy
5. Witchcraft and the Opposition of Houses
6. Conclusion: A Union of Opposites

References
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.8.1994
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-08975-8 / 0520089758
ISBN-13	978-0-520-08975-4 / 9780520089754
Zustand	Neuware