Becoming An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java

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Author: Konstantinos RetsikasISBN: 9780857285294Publisher: Anthem PressYear first published: 15 Aug 2012Pages: 252 Format: Hardback'Becoming An Anthropological Approach to Understa ndings 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'. Show more