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Counterpoint in Maori culture / F. Allan Hanson and Louise Hanson.
- Title
- Counterpoint in Maori culture / F. Allan Hanson and Louise Hanson.
- Author
- Hanson, F. Allan, 1939-
- Publication
- London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DU423.S63 H36 1983 | Off-site | ||
| c.2 | Text | Request in advance | OC.POLY. H 198 c c.2 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Hanson, Louise, 1940-
- Description
- viii, 232 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "The book argues that two dynamic structural forms - complementarity and symmetry - give shape to the development of relationships in a wide range of Maori institutions. These include the relationships among heroes in mythsand folktales, the connection between humans and the gods in ritual and religion, and between persons and groups in peaceful association and in conflict. ..."--Book jacket.
- Series Statement
- International library of anthropology
- Uniform Title
- International library of anthropology
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [219]-227.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION: ON ANALYZING MAORI CULTURE -- Some provisos - Theory and method - The Maoris -- PART ONE COMPLEMENTS -- 2 The difference that makes a difference -- Sexual dualism- The syntagmatics of complementarity : union and creation - Separation - Termination, liberation, and a new beginning -- 3 The gods enter in -- Atuas: the unseen animators - Tapu - The contagion of tapu - Ritual instillation of tapu - From cosmology to psychology -- 4 The gods go away -- Noa: separation and liberation - Whakanoa: water - Whakanoa: the latrine - Whakanoa: female - Whakanoa: cooked food - The complementary forms of the religious life -- PART TWO SYMMETRIES -- 5 Symmetry and reciprocity -- Equivalence and reciprocity - When reciprocity fails - Reciprocity rejected -- 6 Conflict -- Mutual strife - On affronting - Dark intestines - Revenge - Retribution and rehabilitation - Violence turned inward - Vengeance against relatives -- 7 Reconciliation and separation -- Restitution, compensation, and just revenge - Muru - Making peace - Disputation and separation - Defeat and flight -- 8 Subjugation -- Cannibalism - Slavery - Closing the circuit -- 9 Conclusion: Syntagmatic forms and history -- The structures of process
- ISBN
- 0710095465
- LCCN
- ^^^83009462^//r84
- OCLC
- 9488524
- SCSB-10073228
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library