Research Catalog

Title

Children of the blood : society, reproduction, and cosmology in New Guinea / Bernard Juillerat ; translated by Nora Scott.

Author

Juillerat, Bernard.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1996.

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Description

xxx, 601 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Explorations in anthropology

Uniform Title

• Enfants du sang. English
• Explorations in anthropology.

Alternative Title

Enfants du sang.

Subject

• Papua New Guinea > Social life and customs
• Yafar (Papua New Guinean people) > Social life and customs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 571-581) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain
• committed to retain

Contents

Transcription of Amanab Terms -- pt. I. Social Groups: Structures, Dynamics and Representations. 1. Society and Local Groups. 2. Dual Organization. 3. From Dualism to Patrilineal Units. 4. Household and Family -- pt. II. Social Relations and Symbolic Function in Yafar Social Economy. 5. Territory and Land. 6. Horticulture-Arboriculture. 7. Foraging and Husbandry. 8. Exchange and Circulation of Goods Among the Eri -- pt. III. Sexuality, Symbolic Reproduction and Social Continuity. 9. Sexuality, Procreation and Powers. 10. Alliance Structures and Matrimonial Behaviours. 11. Kinship and its Representations. 12. Individual Identity and Social Ontogeny. 13. Hidden Powers. 14. Bad Magic, Bow or Fighting Stick -- pt. IV. Fracture and Change. 15. Contact: Colonization, Independence and Identity -- App. A. Linguistic Note -- App. B. The Sexual Division of Labour -- App. C. Kinship Terms.

ISBN

1859731619

LCCN

^^^97200048^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library