1. The Visible Ordering of Things -- 2. Manifest and Concealed -- 3. From Visible Things: Fieldwork 1969-1971 -- 4. To Hidden Things: Fieldwork 1980-1982 -- 5. A Distinctive Mode of Imagination -- 6. Dreams -- 7. A Hidden Self -- 8. Dreams and Self-Knowledge -- 9. The Traditions of Secret Knowledge -- 10. Two Dream Diviners: Josephina and Janet -- 11. Two Men of Knowledge: Alex and Francis -- 12. Observing a Man of Knowledge: Aisaga -- 13. Learning "Sorcery" Unawares -- 14. The Sorrows of Acquiring Knowledge -- 15. A'aisa's Gifts -- 16. Magic, Self, and Autonomous Imagination
Summary
"Weaving together descriptive ethnography and conventional cultural analysis with narrative accounts, A'aisa's Gifts offers not only an illuminating picture of Mekeo cosmology and perceptions of self but a study with broad implications for anthropologists, psychologists, and scholars of comparative religion." -- Back cover
Analysis
Ethnopsychology
Papua New Guinea
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-369) and indexes
