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Foodways and empathy : relatedness in a Ramu Riber society, Papua New Guinea / Anita von Poser.

Title
Foodways and empathy : relatedness in a Ramu Riber society, Papua New Guinea / Anita von Poser.
Author
Poser, Anita von
Publication
New York : Berghahn, 2013.

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Description
xiv, 274 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific ; volume 4
Uniform Title
Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific v. 4.
Subject
  • Bosmun (Papua New Guinean people) > Food > Social aspects
  • Bosmun (Papua New Guinean people) > Kinship
  • Bosmun (Papua New Guinean people) > Social life and customs
  • Food > Social aspects > Papua New Guinea > Ramu River Valley
  • Kinship > Papua New Guinea > Ramu River Valley
  • Dorfgemeinschaft
  • Nahrung
  • Sago
  • Bananenanbau
  • Fischerei
  • Verwandtschaft
  • Soziale Sicherheit
  • Teilhabe
  • Einfühlung
  • Hexerei
  • Jugend
  • Totenkult
  • Ramu River Valley (Papua New Guinea) > Social life and customs
  • Papua-Neuguinea
  • Ramu-Madang-Gebiet
Genre/Form
Texts
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Sharing Bananas after a Raging Fire -- Making Kin through Foodways and Empathy -- Encountering Bosmun Relationality -- The Chapters -- ch. One The Ethnographic Frame -- Historical Orientations -- Procuring Food at the Ramu -- Sharing a Platform -- Prospect -- ch. Two The Sago Spirit's Legacy and Bosmun Sociality -- A Sagoscape of Regret and Generosity -- Orientations for Sociality -- Prospect -- ch. Three Nzari's Journey and the Enactment of Life-Cycle Events -- Nzari's Pathway -- Marking Significant Steps of the Life Cycle -- Prospect -- ch. Four Ropor's Belly and Emplaced Empathy -- The Story of Ropor -- Ples na hapsait-Bosmun Configurations of Social Landscapes -- Summary -- Conclusion -- Burning a Tattered Rice Bag.
ISBN
  • 9780857459190 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0857459198 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0857459201 (ebook : alk. paper)
  • 9780857459206 (ebook : alk. paper)
  • 9780857459206 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • ^^2012037865
  • 40022569955
OCLC
  • 813567961
  • SCSB-10165931
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library