| Description |
xviii, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; 5 |
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Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; 5
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| Contents |
The Ethnographic Setting -- The Responsibility of Males -- Oil, Shells, and Meat: The Media of Foi Sociality -- The Solicitude of Affines -- Metaphor and Substitution -- Obviation and Myth -- Intersexual Mediation -- Female Reproductivity -- The Anxiety of Affines -- Complementarity, Exchange, and Reciprocity -- The Hidden Myth |
| Analysis |
Papua New Guinea Foi Cultural processes |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Australian National University) |
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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Australian National University) |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 307-313 |
| Notes |
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program |
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English |
| Subject |
Foi (Papua New Guinean people)
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Foi (Papua New Guinean people) -- Religion.
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Social structure -- Papua New Guinea.
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| LC no. |
87025531 |
| ISBN |
0520061322 |
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