South Coast New Guinea Cultures : History, Comparison, Dialectic
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521429315
ISBN-13
9780521429313
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 25th, 1993
Print length
316 Pages
Weight
494 grams
Dimensions
22.70 x 15.30 x 2.10 cms
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A reassessment of ethnographic material from south coast New Guinea, covering a range of topics including sexuality, social inequality, the status of women, religion, politics and violence.
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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