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Houses in the rain forest: ethnicity and inequality among farmers and foragers in Central Africa

By Roy Richard Grinker

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1994
ISBN
0520089758, 9780520089754
LCC
DT650.E34 G75 1994
Google Books ID
FqyBFqRAm2wC
Open Library ID
OL1425589M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
772 kB (790875 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies), learned their languages, and gained unique insights into their complex social relations and ethnic identities. By showing how political organization is structured by ethnic and gender relations in the Lese house, Grinker challenges previous views of the Lese and Efe and other farmer-forager societies, as well as the conventional anthropological boundary between domestic and political contexts.

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