In the Realm of the Diamond Queen Marginality in an Out-Of-the-Way Place

Name: In the Realm of the Diamond Queen Marginality in an Out-Of-the-Way Place
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ISBN: 9780691000510

ISBN-10: 0691000514

ISBN-13: 9780691000510

Edition: 1994

Authors: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

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In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest assumptions. By choosing to locate her study among Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, Tsing deliberately sets into motion the familiar and stubborn urban fantasies of self and other. Unusual encounters with her remarkably creative and unconventional Meratus friends and teachers, however, provide the opportunity to rethink notions of tradition, community, culture, power, and gender--and the doing of anthropology. Tsing's masterful weaving…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/21/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.77" wide x 9.13" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 1.342



Preface


Opening: In the Realm of the Diamond Queen



Politics of the Periphery



Marginal Fictions



Government Headhunters



Family Planning



A Science of Travel



Leadership Landscapes



Conditions of Living



On the Boundary of the Skin



Riding the Horse of Gaps



Alien Romance



Riding, Writing



The History of the World


Reprise


Notes


References Cited


Index