Naven : A survey of the problems suggested by a composite picture of the culture of a New Guinea tribe drawn from three points of view / by Gregory Bateson
Edition
Second edition with a new chapter by the author
Published
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1958
xix, 312 pages, 28 pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents
Methods of presentation -- The naven ceremonies -- The concepts of structure and function -- Cultural premises relevant to the wau--laua relationship -- Sorcery and vengeance -- Structural analysis of the wau-laua relationship -- The sociology of naven -- Problems and methods of approach -- The ethos of Iatmul culture : the men -- The ethos of Iatmul culture : the women -- Attitudes towards death -- The preferreed types -- Ethological contrast, competition and schismogenesis -- The expression of ethos in naven -- The eidos of Iatmul culture -- Epilogue 1936 -- Epilogue 1958
