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Ways of baloma : rethinking magic and kinship from the Trobriands / Mark S. Mosko ; with Tabalu Pulayasi Daniel [and three others].
- Title
- Ways of baloma : rethinking magic and kinship from the Trobriands / Mark S. Mosko ; with Tabalu Pulayasi Daniel [and three others].
- Author
- Mosko, Mark S., 1948-
- Publication
- Chicago : Hau Books, [2017]
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- Additional Authors
- Daniel, Tablu Pulaysi
- Description
- xxxvii, 473 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Bronislaw Malinowski’s path-breaking research in the Trobriand Islands shaped much of modern anthropology’s disciplinary paradigm. Yet many conundrums remain. For example, Malinowski asserted that baloma spirits of the dead were responsible for procreation but had limited influence on their living descendants in magic and other matters, claims largely unchallenged by subsequent field investigators, until now. Based on extended fieldwork at Omarakana village—home of the Tabalu “Paramount Chief”—Mark S. Mosko argues instead that these and virtually all contexts of indigenous sociality are conceived as sacrificial reciprocities between the mirror worlds that baloma and humans inhabit." -- Publisher's description
- Series Statement
- The Malinowski monographs
- Uniform Title
- Malinowski monographs series.
- Alternative Title
- Rethinking magic and kinship from the Trobriands
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: on magical images, powers, and persons -- Theoretical orientations: partibility and participation -- The magical powers of baloma -- Baloma creations and procreations -- Bwekasa: the life-giving sacrificial rites of Trobriander, living and deceased -- Cycles of reproduction and reincarnation as Bwekasa sacrifice -- Taboos, totems, and Tuma -- The supreme puzzle: Suvasova incest, rank, marriage alliance, and chiefly endogamy -- Conclusion: analogy, homology, and changing ways of baloma.
- ISBN
- 9780997367560
- 0997367563
- OCLC
- 975486360
- SCSB-11438742
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library