| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 295 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-282) and index. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface to the English translation -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. An out-of-the-way situation -- Chapter 2. "Your wife is pregnant. Cover your head!" -- Chapter 3. Accompanying a birth -- Chapter 4. Transmitting know-how -- Chapter 5. A long ritual journey -- Chapter 6. Abstaining for oneself, abstaining for others -- Chapter 7. Exchanges and prohibitions -- Chapter 8. Male metamorphoses -- Chapter 9. Women's lives: A path unmarked by rituals? Part I -- Chapter 10. The brother-sister relationship through the years |
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Chapter 11. Women's lives: A path unmarked by rituals? Part II -- Chapter 12. A few other relational figures? -- Chapter 13. "The Melanesian person": Debates -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
"For the Ankave of Papua New Guinea, men, unlike women, do not reach adulthood and become fathers simply by growing up and reproducing. What fathers - and by extension, men - actually are is a result of a series of relational transformations, operated in and by rituals in which men and women both perform complementary actions in separate spaces. 'Acting for Others' is a tour de force in Melanesian ethnography, gender studies, and theories of ritual. Based on years of fieldwork conducted by the author and her husband and co-ethnographer, this book's 'double view' of the Ankave ritual cycle - from women in the village and from the men in the forest - is novel, provocative, and one of the most incisive analyses of the emergence of ideas of gender in Papua New Guinea since Marilyn Strathern's 'The Gender of the Gift'"-- Source other than Library of Congress. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ankave (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs.
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Ankave (Papua New Guinean people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Sex role -- Papua New Guinea.
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Families -- Papua New Guinea.
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Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea.
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Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs.
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Ethnology |
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Families |
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Manners and customs |
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Sex role |
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Papua New Guinea https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxrW6PwDKMhdgFpg3XDbd |
| Added Author |
Scott, Nora, translator.
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Strathern, Marilyn, author of foreword.
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| Added Title |
Agir pour un autre. English
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Relational transformations in Papua New Guinea |
| Translation Of: |
Revised and augmented translation of (expression): Bonnemere, Pascale. Agir pour un autre. Aix-en-Provence : Presses universitaires de Provence, 2015 9791032000007 (DLC) 2016398208 (OCoLC)925725663 |
| Other Form: |
Original 9780997367584 099736758X (OCoLC)975486755 |
| ISBN |
9781912808540 (electronic bk.) |
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1912808544 (electronic bk.) |
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9780997367584 |
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099736758X |
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