Creative land : place and procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea /

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"The book contains a new critique of the genealogical model of kinship, suggesting that this model prevents us from grasping the way generative relations, including those to land and place, constitute persons on the Rai Coast. Analytic attention is focused upon the life cycle, marriage, exchang...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Leach, James, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Tok
Papuan
Published: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2003.
Subjects:
Nekgini language > texts.
Tok Pisin language > Texts.
Nekgini (Papua New Guinean people) > Kinship.
Nekgini (Papua New Guinean people) > Economic conditions.
Human ecology > Papua New Guinea > Madang Province.
Tok pisin (Langue) > Textes.
Nekgini (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) > Parenté.
Nekgini (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) > Conditions économiques.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Human ecology
Tok Pisin language
Weltbild
Anthropogeografie
Sozialverhalten
Wirtschaftliche Lage
Verwandtschaftssystem
Sozialanthropologie
Nekgini.
Kinship.
Economic aspects.
Papua New Guinea > Madang Province
Papua-Neuguinea
Papua New-Guinea.
Texts
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Process and Kinship
  • Ch. 2. Residence History and Palem
  • Ch. 3. Marrying Sisters
  • Ch. 4. Gardens, Land, and Growth
  • Ch. 5. Birth, Emergence, and Exchange
  • Ch. 6. Spirit, Flesh, and Bone
  • Ch. 7. Places and Bodies, Landscape and Perception
  • Ch. 8. Creative Land.

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