South coast New Guinea cultures: history, comparison, dialectic
The communities of south coast New Guinea were the subject of classic ethnographies, and fresh studies in recent decades have put these rich and complex cultures at the center of anthropological debates. Flamboyant sexual practices such as ritual homosexuality have attracted particular interest. In...
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| Summary: | The communities of south coast New Guinea were the subject of classic ethnographies, and fresh studies in recent decades have put these rich and complex cultures at the center of anthropological debates. Flamboyant sexual practices such as ritual homosexuality have attracted particular interest. In the first general book on the region, Dr. Knauft reaches striking new comparative conclusions through a careful ethnographic analysis of sexuality, the status of women, ritual and cosmology, political economy, and violence among the region's seven major language-culture areas. The findings suggest new Melanesian regional contrasts and provide for a general critique of the way regional comparisons are constructed in anthropology. Theories of practice and political economy as well as postmodern insights are drawn upon to provide a generative theory of indigenous social and symbolic development. |
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NEW GUINEA CULTURES
History, comparison, dialectic
BRUCE M KNAUFT
Department of Anthropology, Emory University
CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contents
List of figures page viii
List of tables ix
Acknowledgments x
Part 1: Grounding
1 Theoretical and ethnographic context 3
2 Historical background and regional configuration 25
Part 2: Critique
3 Sexuality in the regional analysis of south New Guinea 45
4 The analytic legacy of homosexual emphasis: language,
subsistence, and political economy 60
5 Women s status 86
6 Trends in comparative analysis 117
Part 3: Reconfiguration
7 Theoretical reconfiguration 129
8 Marind-anim 136
9 Symbolic and sociopolitical permutations 172
10 Regional characteristics and comparisons 210
Appendix: evidence concerning Asmat homosexuality 228
Notes 238
List of references 252
Index 288
Figures
1 Language-culture areas of south coast New Guinea
2 Asmat bis-pole
3 Marind-anim gari sunburst ornament
4 Purari kaiemunu
5 Trans-Fly
(a) sacred hawk stone
(b) bullroarer
6 Kiwai horiomu costume
7 Elema hevehe mask
page xiv
Tables
1 South lowland New Guinea language families and presence/
absence of indigenous ritualized homosexuality page 49
2 Geography and subsistence regimes of south coast New
Guinea 63
3 Leadership and exchange in south coast New Guinea 78
4 Big Man society characteristics in south coast New Guinea 81
5 Great Man society characteristics in south coast New Guinea 81
6 Comparative estimates of female status in south coast New
Guinea 106
7 Female status and importance of male warrior prestige 108
8 Female status and starch staple subsistence 109
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