Becoming – An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java
| Author | : Konstantinos Retsikas |
| Publisher | : Anthem Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2014-10-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781783083107 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1783083107 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (107 Downloads) |
Download or read book Becoming – An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java written by Konstantinos Retsikas and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Becoming – An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java’ is an ethnographic monograph that examines the ways in which the peoples of a peri-urban locality in East Java, Indonesia conceive of the person, by looking at how their everyday practices relate to understandings of ethnicity, kinship, Islam and gender. The volume is also a thought experiment that aims to make a theoretical contribution to the discipline of anthropology by proposing the concept of the ‘diaphoron’ person and re-deploying the method of ‘total ethnography’.
