Houses in the Rainforest

by Roy Richard Grinker

• ISBN13: 9780520083578
• ISBN10: 0520083571
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2023-04-28
• Publisher: University of California Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on Language and Orthography
Introduction: From Tribes to Ethnic Groups	p. 1
The History and Isolation of the Lese	p. 18
Gender and Ethnicity	p. 73
The House and the Economy	p. 110
Witchcraft and the Opposition of Houses	p. 161
Conclusion: A Union of Opposites	p. 194
References	p. 207
Index	p. 219
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