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Author Goodale, Jane C. (Jane Carter), 1926-2008.

Title To sing with pigs is human : the concept of person in Papua New Guinea / Jane C. Goodale
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1995

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 269 p.)
Contents 1. The Kaulong and "Others": An Interpretive History -- 2. The Management of Knowledge -- 3. In Forest and Garden -- 4. Saying It with Shells -- 5. Pomidan and Polamit: The Kaulong Elite -- 6. We Are All Brothers and Sisters -- 7. The Reproduction of Siblings -- 8. Singing in the Forest -- 9. "Listen, There Is No Fire": Songs of Ghosts -- 10. Of Pigs and Humans: Where Forest and Clearing Meet
Summary In the course of her fieldwork with the Kaulong, who live on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea, Jane Goodale recognized that everything of importance to them - every event, relationship, and transaction - was rooted in their constant quest for recognition as human beings. She addresses here questions central to Kaulong society: What is it that makes an individual human? How is humanity, or personhood, achieved and maintained?
In their consuming concern with their status as human beings, the Kaulong mark progress on a continuum from nonhuman (animal-like) to the most respected level of humanity - the political "big men" and "big women." Knowledge is the key to movement along the continuum, and acquiring, displaying, and defending knowledge are at the heart of social interaction. At all-night "singsings," individuals compete through song in their knowledge of people, places, and many other aspects of their forested world. The sacrifice of pigs and distribution of pork to guests completes the ceremonial display and defense of knowledge and personhood. Goodale's analysis of songs and their ritual context adds unusual depth to the ethnography
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-264) and index
Notes Includes text in Kaulong
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Subject Kaulong (Papua New Guinean people) -- Psychology
Kaulong (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs
Identity (Psychology) -- Papua New Guinea -- New Britain Island
Gender identity -- Papua New Guinea -- New Britain Island
Self-perception -- Papua New Guinea -- New Britain Island
Big man (Melanesia) -- Papua New Guinea -- New Britain Island
73.06 ethnography.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Big man (Melanesia)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Identity (Psychology)
Gender identity.
Kaulong (Papua New Guinean people) -- Psychology.
Kaulong (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs.
Ich-Identität
Manners and customs.
Interaktion
Self-perception.
Kaulong (volk)
Personne (philosophie)
Connaissance de soi.
Rôle selon le sexe -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee -- Nouvelle-Bretagne (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee)
Identite (psychologie) -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee -- Nouvelle-Bretagne (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee)
identite -- Kaulong (peuple) -- moi.
Kaulong (peuple) -- perception de soi -- Nouvelle-Bretagne (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee)
identité.
Kaulong (peuple)
Ich-Identität.
Interaktion.
SUBJECT New Britain Island (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs
Subject Papua New Guinea -- New Britain Island.
New Britain Insel
Nouvelle-Bretagne (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee) -- Moeurs et coutumes.
New Britain <Insel>
Genre/Form Texts.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021694824
ISBN 9780295801599
029580159X