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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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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
  • Foi (Papua New Guinean people)
  • 73.06 ethnography
  • Ethnologie
  • Mythologie
  • Soziales System
  • Foi
  • Foi
  • Foi (peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée)
  • Iwi taketake
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