| Description |
xiii, 298 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction Andrew Strathern -- Part I. Transcending Dichotomies: 2. 'It's a boy', 'It's a girl!': reflections on sex and gender in Madagascar and beyond Rita Astuti -- 3. Modernity and formative personhood in Melanesia Edward LiPuma -- 4. Refiguring the person: the dynamics of affects and symbols in an African spirit possession cult Ellen Corin -- 5. Body and mind in mind, body and mind in body: some anthropological interventions in a long conversation Michael Lambek -- Part II. Transitions, Containments, Decontainments: 6. Treating the affect by remodelling the body in a Yaka healing cult Rene Devisch -- 7. To eat for another: taboo and the elicitation of bodily form among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea Sandra Bamford -- 8. Electric vampires: Haya rumors of the commodified body Brad Weiss -- Part III. From Exchange to History: 9. Creative possessions: spirit mediumship and millennial economy among Gebusi of Papua New Guinea Bruce M. Knauft -- 10. Dis-embodiment and concealment among the Atbalmin of Papua New Guinea Eytan Bercovitch -- 11. Melpa and Nuer ideas of life and death: the rebirth of a comparison Andrew Strathern and Pamela Stewart -- Afterword Janice Boddy |
| Notes |
"Most of the chapters in this volume were first presented in a panel organized by the editors at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in November 1994" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-293) and index |
| Subject |
Human body -- Social aspects -- Africa.
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Melanesia.
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Ethnology -- Africa.
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Ethnology -- Melanesia.
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- Africa.
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- Melanesia.
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Persons.
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| Author |
Lambek, Michael.
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Strathern, Andrew.
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| LC no. |
98149928 |
| ISBN |
0521621941 (cased) |
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0521627370 (paperback) |
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