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From a Shattered Sun: Hierarchy, Gender, and Alliance in the Tanimbar Islands,New
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Among a growing number of ethnographies of eastern Indonesia that deal with cosmology, exchange, and kinship, From a Shattered Sun is the first to address squarely issues originally broached by Edmund Leach and Claude LviStrauss concerning the relation between hierarchy and equality in asymmetric systems of marriage.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 allianceof 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 relatedin terms of culturally specific understandings of 'houses,' gender, and exchangethat one can perceive the processes through which hierarchy and equality are created.
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