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This important study upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. In a theoretically innovative account of the lives of the Korowai of West Papua, Indonesia, Rupert Stasch shows that in this society, people organize their connections to each another around otherness. Analyzing the Korowai people's famous "tree house" dwellings, their patterns of living far apart, and their practices of kinship, marriage, and childbearing and rearing, Stasch argues that the Korowai actively make relations not out of what they have in common, but out of what divides them. Society of Others, the first anthropological book about the Korowai, offers a picture of Korowai lives sharply at odds with stereotypes of "tribal" societies.

Ethnopsychology --- Mourning customs --- Kinship --- Ethnology --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- Psychology --- National characteristics --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Families --- Kin recognition --- Papua (Indonesia) --- Tanah Papua (Indonesia) --- West New Guinea (Indonesia) --- Provinsi Papua (Indonesia) --- Papua Province (Indonesia) --- Province of Papua (Indonesia) --- Irian Jaya (Indonesia) --- Irian Jaya Barat (Indonesia) --- Social life and customs. --- anthropology. --- attachment. --- avoidance. --- child rearing. --- childbearing. --- contact and separation. --- creation of belonging. --- death. --- disruption. --- ethnography. --- family. --- human relations. --- indonesia. --- indonesian culture. --- indonesian society. --- kin. --- kinship. --- korowai of west papua. --- living far apart. --- marriage. --- mourning. --- otherness. --- place ownership. --- relatives. --- shared experiences. --- small scale societies. --- social organization. --- social ties. --- sociality. --- spatial margins. --- tragedy. --- tree house dwellings. --- trial society.