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Author Schneider, Katharina

Title Saltwater Sociality : a Melanesian Island Ethnography
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (262 pages)
Contents List of Tables; A Note on Languages; Preface; Acknowledgements; Maps; Introduction; 1. Fishing People; 2. Kin on the Move; 3. Mobile Places; 4. Pinaposa; 5. Marriage and Mortuary Rites; 6. Movements and Kastom; Conclusion; Glossary; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Bibliography; Index
Summary The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of 'saltwater people' in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movements, they take their cues about the current state of social relations. Based on detailed ethnography, this study engages current Melanesian anthropological theory and argues that movements are the Pororans' predominant mode of objectifying relations. Movements on Pororan Island are to its inhabitants what
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index
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Subject Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Bougainville Island Region
Matrilineal kinship -- Papua New Guinea -- Bougainville Island Region
Sex role -- Papua New Guinea -- Bougainville Island Region
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Ethnology
Matrilineal kinship
Sex role
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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