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People and things : social mediations in Oceania

Title
People and things : social mediations in Oceania / Monique Jeudy-Ballini and Bernard Juillerat.
Author
Jeudy-Ballini, Monique, 1955-
Publication
Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Press, ©2002.

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Additional Authors
Juillerat, Bernard.
Description
xi, 363 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"The present work is collection of eleven essays by French anthropologists. The data they discuss were gathered in societies in Polynesia (Samoa, Tonga), Melanesia (Papua New Guinea, Irian Jaya, New Britain, New Ireland, New Caledonia), and Australia."--Cover.
Uniform Title
Relation à l'objet, relation à l'autre. English
Alternative Title
Relation à l'objet, relation à l'autre.
Subject
  • Exchange > Oceania
  • Kava (Beverage)
  • Material culture > Oceania
  • Exchange
  • Manners and customs
  • Material culture
  • Sachkultur
  • Tausch
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Sociale ruil
  • Schenkingen
  • Sociale aspecten
  • Oceania > Social life and customs
  • Oceania
  • Ozeanien
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-337) and indexes.
Contents
Introduction: The social life of objects / Monique Jeudy-Ballini and Bernard Juillerat -- Subjects and objects in Samoa: ceremonial mats have a "soul" / Serge Tcherkézoff -- Kava ritual and the reproduction of male identity in Polynesia / Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon -- Surrogates for humans and for gods / Maurice Godelier -- Women and wealth in New Guinea / Pierre Lemonnier -- Spectacle of things: a Melanesian perspective on the person and the self / Stéphane Breton -- Other side of the gift: from desire to taboo representations of exchange and Œdipal symbolism among the Yafar, Papua New Guinea / Bernard Juillerat -- To help and to "hold": forms of cooperation among the Sulka, New Britain / Monique Jeudy-Ballini -- Copy rights for objects of worship, land tenure and filiation in New Ireland / Brigitte Derlon -- Australian Aboriginal ritual objects or how to represent the unrepresentable / Marika Moisseeff -- Culture cult ritual circulation of inalienable objects and appropriation of culture knowledge (Northwest and Central Australia) / Barbara Glowczewski -- Time, objects and identities the destiny of Kanak art / Alban Bensa.
ISBN
  • 089089616X
  • 9780890896167
LCCN
2001052797
OCLC
  • ocm48265617
  • 48265617
  • SCSB-1247909
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library