| Description |
xxi, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Photographs -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Orthography -- Introduction -- 1. The Argument among Myths -- 2. The Gimi of Highland New Guinea -- Part One: Cannibalism and the Rites of Death -- 3. Gimi Cannibalism in History and in Myth -- 4. The Death of a Man in His Prime -- 5. The Death of a Man, Part II: Women Convert the Man to Decorations -- Part Two: Women's Work and the World They Hide -- 6. "Songs Hold the Spirit": Garden Magic, Blood Songs, and the Nature of Women's Work -- 7. Theories of Conception: Alternative Outcomes in a Intrauterine Scenario -- 8. Rituals of Childhood Death and Birth: Men's First Exchanges Outside the Mother -- Part Three: Marriage and Male Initiation -- 9. The Myth of the Flutes and Principles of Exchange -- Part Four: The World of Sorcery -- 10. "Only Men Understand Sorcery" -- 11. The Rites of Cure -- Conclusion -- 12. Myth as Ultimate Reality -- Appendix: Kinship Terminology -- Glossary of Gimi Terms -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Analysis |
Myths Social anthropology |
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Papua New Guinea |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-384) and index |
| Subject |
Ceremonial exchange -- Papua New Guinea.
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Gimi (Papua New Guinean people)
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Gimi (Papua New Guinean people) -- Attitudes.
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Gimi (Papua New Guinean people) -- Folklore.
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Gimi (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs.
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Women, Gimi -- Psychology.
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Women, Gimi -- Social conditions.
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| LC no. |
92011319 |
| ISBN |
0226293807 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0226293815 (paper : alk. paper) |
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