| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvii, 473 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The Malinowski monographs
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Malinowski monographs series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-454) and indexes. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs.
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Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands.
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Ethnology. |
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Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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Manners and customs. |
| Added Author |
Daniel, Tablu Pulaysi, contributor.
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| Added Title |
Rethinking magic and kinship from the Trobriands |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Mosko, Mark S., 1948- Ways of Baloma. Chicago : Hau Books, [2017] 9780997367560 (OCoLC)975486360 |
| ISBN |
9781912808229 (electronic book) |
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1912808226 (electronic book) |
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9780997367560 |
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0997367563 |
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