Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropologyseries number 106 mangrove man

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This is a modern ethnography of the Murik, a relatively large and important community settled on the Sepik River estuary in Papua New Guinea.



This book is the first modern ethnography of the Murik, a relatively large and important community settled on the Sepik River estuary in Papua New Guinea, and the only book of a non-Western culture drawing on the conceptual framework of the Russian literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin. Murik men, who exercise political power, conceptualize women as the source of nurture, generosity and love. This conceptualization creates for men a kind of existential problem, and their claim to sustain and reproduce society requires them to appropriate the nurturant qualities of women. So they must, in some sense, model certain aspects of themselves after women. A 'maternal schema' or 'poetics of the female body', therefore underlines the sociocultural patterns of these societies. This schema expresses itself in a range of societal domains: in kinship relations, life-cycle rituals, the men's cults, and in disputes and processes of conflict resolution. The issues discussed tie in with some of the major contemporary debates in the social sciences: the relationship between ideas of male and female power.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 13 november 1997

Aantal pagina's: 358

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: David Lipset

Hoofdredacteur: Meyer Fortes

Tweede Redacteur: Meyer Fortes

Co Redacteur: Edmund Leach

Hoofduitgeverij: Cambridge University Press

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 152 mm

Product hoogte: 19 mm

Product lengte: 229 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 152 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 19 mm

Verpakking lengte: 229 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 480 g

EAN: 9780521564359

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