The heart of the pearl shell: the mythological dimension of foi sociality
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Berkeley [u.a.]
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1988
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| Series: | Studies in Melanesian anthropology
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| Physical Description: | XVIII, 322 S. |
| ISBN: | 0520061322 |
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| adam_text | Titel: The heart of the pearl shell
Autor: Weiner, James F
Jahr: 1988
Contents
Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Orthography xvii
1. Introduction 1
2. The Ethnographie Setting 18
The People of the Above 18
History and Contact 25
Bridewealth 30
Subsistence 33
3. The Responsibility of Males 41
Male and Female Productivity 43
Foi Spatial Orientation 47
Blood and Fat: Conception 50
Blood and Skin: Sorcery 52
Ghosts and Sickness 54
Usi 57
4. Oil, Shells, and Meat: The Media of Foi 63
Sociality
Kara o 64
Pearl Shells 69
Aname Kobora: Pigs, Shells, and Sickness 73
Contents
5. The Solicitude of Affines 78
Clan and Longhouse Structure 78
Residence and Head-Men 83
The Affinal Interdict 89
Bridewealth Transactions and Networks 95
Marriage Patterns and Bridewealth Networks 103
Death Payments and Widow Remarriage 108
Fastening the Skin 117
6. Metaphor and Substitution 122
Lexical and Metaphorical Signification 122
Leaf Talk 125
Foi Narrative Style 126
Magic 129
Mourning Songs 131
Name Transmission 135
7. Obviation and Myth 138
The Dialectic of Foi Social Process 138
The Ethnography of Foi Myth 150
Obviation and Structural Analysis 154
8. Intersexual Mediation 173
The Origin of Tree Grubs 173
The Origin of Leeches 178
Fonomo and Kunuware 181
Return from the Dead 188
The Fish Spear 194
The Milk Bamboo 199
9. Female Reproductivity 205
The Breast-Milk Women 205
The Origin of Fish Poison 208
The Two Matrilateral Brothers 210
Sister-Exchange 218
The Sister s Husband s Penis 221
The Origin of Usane 224
10. The Anxiety of Affines 231
The Origin of the Karuato Feast 231
The Wild Pig Brother-in-Law 236
The Marsupial s Son s Bridewealth 241
The Sky Village 243
Contents vii
The Younger Brother s Resurrection 248
The Origin of Garden Food 253
11. Complementarity, Exchange, and Reciprocity 260
The Ugly Wife and the Beautiful Wife 261
The Origin of Feral Dogs and Pigs 264
The Foi Man and the Weyamo Man 268
Tononawi and Aiyabe 272
The Place of the Pearl Shells 275
The Heart of the Pearl Shell 279
12. The Hidden Myth 284
Notes 297
References 306
Index 315
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