18 research outputs found
The orphaned nation: Korea imagined as an overseas adopted child in Clon's Abandoned Child
OTTENBERG, Simon, Boyhood Rituals in an African Society, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1989, 344 pp., illus., maps, appendices, $30.00, 0 295 96575 4
Narratives of Nation Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism. By Sheila Miyoshi Jager. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. xv, 193 pp. 22.95 (paper).
Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin. By Sonia Ryang. New York: Routledge, 2000. x, 229 pp. $90.00 (cloth).
Houses in the rainforest
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