South Coast New Guinea Cultures: History, Comparison, DialecticCambridge University Press, 25 мар. 1993 г. - Всего страниц: 298 The communities of south coast New Guinea were the subject of classic ethnographies, and fresh studies in recent decades have put these rich and complex cultures at the centre of anthropological debates. Flamboyant sexual practices, such as ritual homosexuality, have attracted particular interest. In the first general book on the region, Dr Knauft reaches striking new comparative conclusions through a careful ethnographic analysis of sexuality, the status of women, ritual and cosmology, political economy, and violence among the region's seven major language-culture areas. The findings suggest new Melanesian regional contrasts and provide for a general critique of the way regional comparisons are constructed in anthropology. Theories of practice and political economy as well as post-modern insights are drawn upon to provide a generative theory of indigenous social and symbolic development. |
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Theoretical and ethnographic context | 3 |
Historical background and regional configuration | 25 |
Critique | 43 |
Sexuality in the regional analysis of south New Guinea | 45 |
The analytic legacy of homosexual emphasis language subsistence and political economy | 60 |
Womens status | 86 |
Trends in comparative analysis | 117 |
Reconfiguration | 127 |
Marindanim | 136 |
Symbolic and sociopolitical permutations | 172 |
Regional characteristics and comparisons | 210 |
evidence concerning Asmat homosexuality | 228 |
Notes | 238 |
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Theoretical reconfiguration | 129 |
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