Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface to the English translation -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. An out-of-the-way situation -- Chapter 2. "Your wife is pregnant. Cover your head!" -- Chapter 3. Accompanying a birth -- Chapter 4. Transmitting know-how -- Chapter 5. A long ritual journey -- Chapter 6. Abstaining for oneself, abstaining for others -- Chapter 7. Exchanges and prohibitions -- Chapter 8. Male metamorphoses -- Chapter 9. Women's lives: A path unmarked by rituals? Part I -- Chapter 10. The brother-sister relationship through the years
Chapter 11. Women's lives: A path unmarked by rituals? Part II -- Chapter 12. A few other relational figures? -- Chapter 13. "The Melanesian person": Debates -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-282) and index
