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The heart of the pearl shell : the mythological dimension of Foi sociality
- Title
- The heart of the pearl shell : the mythological dimension of Foi sociality / James F. Weiner.
- Author
- Weiner, James F.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1988.
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Book/Text | Use in library | DU740.42 .W43 1988 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xviii, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; 5
- Uniform Title
- Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; 5.
- Subject
- Note
- Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Australian National University).
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 307-313.
- Contents
- The Ethnographic Setting -- The Responsibility of Males -- Oil, Shells, and Meat: The Media of Foi Sociality -- The Solicitude of Affines -- Metaphor and Substitution -- Obviation and Myth -- Intersexual Mediation -- Female Reproductivity -- The Anxiety of Affines -- Complementarity, Exchange, and Reciprocity -- The Hidden Myth.
- ISBN
- 0520061322
- 9780520061323
- LCCN
- 87025531
- OCLC
- ocm16759114
- 16759114
- SCSB-1712416
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library