Title South coast New Guinea cultures : history, comparison, dialectic / Bruce M. Knauft

Published Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993

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Description xii, 298 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm Series Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 89 Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 89 Contents Machine derived contents note: Part I. Grounding: 1. Theoretical and ethnographic context -- 2. Historical background and regional configuration -- Part II. Critique: 3. Sexuality in the regional analysis of south New Guinea -- 4. The analytic legacy of homosexual emphasis: language, subsistence, and political economy -- 5. Women's status -- 6. Trends in comparative analysis -- Part III. Reconfiguration: 7. Theoretical reconfiguration -- 8. Marind-anim -- 9. Symbolic and sociopolitical permutations -- 10. Regional characteristics and comparisons -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index Summary Study of communities on the south coast of New Guinea including flamboyant sexual practices, the status of women, ritual and cosmology, political economy and violence Analysis Anthropology Notes Acquisitions record Format: Hardback Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [252]-289) and index Audience Postgraduate Tertiary/Undergraduate Notes Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology no:89 Subject Ethnology -- New Guinea. Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea. Melanesians -- Sexual behavior. Melanesians -- Social life and customs. Sex customs -- Melanesia. New Guinea (Territory) -- Social life and customs. New Guinea -- Social life and customs. Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs. LC no. 92012472 ISBN 0521418828 (hardback) 0521429315 (paperback)

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