Download or read book Women in Kararau written by Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin and published by Göttingen University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a glimpse back in time to a Middle Sepik society, the Iatmul, first investigated by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson in the late 1920s while the feminist anthropologist Margaret Mead worked on sex roles among the neighbouring Tchambuli (Chambri) people. The author lived in the Iatmul village of Kararau in 1972/3 where she studied women’s lives, works, and knowledge in detail. She revisited the Sepik in 2015 and 2017. The book, the translation of a 1977 publication in German, is complemented by two chapters dealing with the life of the Iatmul in the 2010s. It presents rich quantitative and qualitative data on subsistence economy, marriage, and women’s knowledge concerning myths and rituals. Besides, life histories and in-depth interviews convey deep insights into women’s experiences and feelings, especially regarding their varied relationships with men in the early 1970s. Since then, Iatmul culture has changed in many respects, especially as far as the economy, religion, knowledge, and the relationship between men and women are concerned. In her afterword, the anthropologist Christiane Falck highlights some of the major topics raised in the book from a 2018 perspective, based on her own fieldwork which she commenced in 2012. Thus, the book provides the reader with detailed information about gendered lives in this riverine village of the 1970s and an understanding of the cultural processes and dynamics that have taken place since.
Download or read book Ibss Anthropology 1978 written by International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Naven written by Gregory Bateson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1958 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Naven" is the name of a peculiar ritual practiced by Iatmul, a head-hunting tribe of New Guinea.Th e ceremony is performed to congratulate members of the tribe upon the completion of notable accomplishments, among which homicide ranks highest. Ordinarily this tribe insists upon an extreme contrast between the sexes, but in the "naven" ceremony, tranvestitism and ritual homosexuality are represented. The "naven" serves in this book as a motive around which the author has constructed one of the most influential works of field anthropology ever written.
Download or read book Masculinity Motherhood and Mockery written by Eric Kline Silverman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important ethnographic analysis of motherhood in one Melanesian society
Download or read book Gender Rituals written by Nancy Lutkehaus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws together ethnographies of female initiation rites in Melanesia which require anthropologists to rethink their analysis of initiations and their perceptions of gender. The contributors argue that female initiation rites express more than cultural notions of femininity, narrow definitions of reproduction, or coming of age rituals - instead they play an important role in other life cycle rituals and in the political and economic organization of society.
Download or read book Time and Its Object written by Paolo Fortis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the way objects and images relate to and shape notions of temporality and history. Bringing together ethnographic studies from the Lowlands of Central and South America and Melanesia, it explores the temporality inhering in images and artefacts from a comparative perspective. The chapters focus on how peoples in both regions ‘live in’ and ‘navigate’ time each through their distinctive systems of images and the processes and actions by which these come to be manifest in objects. With original theoretical and ethnographic contributions, the book is valuable reading for scholars interested in visual and material culture and in anthropological approaches to time.
Download or read book Ritual written by Andrew Strathern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of a number of carefully-selected readings that represent a wide range of discussions and theorizing about ritual. The selection encompasses definitional questions, issues of interpretation, meaning, and function, and a roster of ethnographic and analytical topics, covering classic themes such as ancestor worship and sacrifice, initiation, gender, healing, social change, and shamanic practices, as well as recent critical and reconstructive theorizing on embodiment, performance, and performativity. In their Introduction to the volume, the Editors provide an overall survey and critical consideration of topics, incorporating insights from their own long-term field research and reflections on the readings included. The Introduction and readings together provide a unique research tool for those interested in pursuing the study of ritual processes in depth, with the benefit of both historical and contemporary approaches.
Download or read book Religions of Melanesia written by Garry Trompf and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2006-09-30 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religions of Melanesia is the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of religious life in a region that boasts over one-quarter of the world's distinct religions.
Download or read book Tambunum New Perspectives on Eastern Iatmul Sepik River Papua New Guinea Kinship Marriage and Society written by Eric Kline Silverman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Bibliography of Pacific Island Theses and Dissertations written by William George Coppell and published by [Canberra, A.C.T.] : Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National university ; [Honolulu] : Institute for Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University, Hawaii Campus. This book was released on 1983 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Sex and Gender Hierarchies written by Barbara D. Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-18 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection attempts to revive a unified anthropological approach to the study of sex and gender hierarchies. Seventeen distinguished contributors - from cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology, and anthropological linguistics - have produced a wealth of fascinating data on human and primate, ancient and contemporary, and 'primitive' and developed societies, covering topics such as mothering and child care, work, health, intrafamily relationships, and public power. The interdisciplinary approach successfully contributes to the development of better theory and methodology in anthropology.
