After the ancestors : an anthropologist's story /

After the ancestors : an anthropologist's story /

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Author / Creator:	Beatty, Andrew, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015. ©2015
Description:	xix, 372 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Beatty, Andrew -- Travel -- Indonesia -- Nias Island. Beatty, Andrew. Niasese (Indonesian people) -- Indonesia -- Nias Island -- Social life and customs. Niasese (Indonesian people) -- Indonesia -- Nias Island -- Social conditions. Manners and customs. Social conditions. Travel. Nias Island (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs. Nias Island (Indonesia) -- Social conditions. Indonesia -- Nias Island.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10147106

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ISBN:	9781107094789 110709478X 9781107477407 1107477409
Notes:	Includes index.
Summary:	"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"--

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