The magical body: power, fame and meaning in a Melanesian society
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1998
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| Beschreibung: | XXII, 302 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9057023059 |
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Richard Eves
The Magical Body
Power, Fame and Meaning in
a Melanesian Society
harwood academic publishers
Australia • Canada • China • France • Germany • India • Japan
Luxembourg • Malaysia • The Netherlands • Russia • Singapore
Switzerland
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xvii
Language Notes and Conventions xix
Glossary xxi
Introduction 1
Ethnographic emplacements and encounters 3
The Lelet imagining their world 8
Magic and the anthropological imagination 10
The body and the anthropological imagination 16
The power of movement and the movement
of power 19
Outline of book 21
One Empowering Bodies, Engendering Bodies 25
Mapping the body 25
Person, products and the creation of value 33
Embodiment 40
Movement, power and the dance 45
The vulnerable body 58
Two From Colonialism to Cash Crops 69
Colonial governance 70
From coconuts to cash cropping 77
Developing roads, developing cash cropping 85
Three Christianity, Conversion and Magic 93
'We are in darkness and many are dying
When is the light coming?' 95
v
VI THE MAGICAL BODY
The-culture hero Moroa who became God 100
From 'heathen darkness' to Holy Spirit movement 107
Magic and the baptism of the Holy Spirit 115
Four Embodying Kinship: Shame, Sex and
Shell Valuables 121
Moieties, clans and lineages 121
Avoidance relationships and bodies in space 126
Shame, secrecy and sexual revelations 131
Valuables, desire and movement 135
Having somewhere to sit 142
Five Other Bodies, Other Powers:
The World of Non-Human Beings 151
The multiple bodily forms of larada 152
Refiguring the human form in lagas 155
Larada, seating and movement 157
The movement of lagas to peripheral spaces 160
Illness, death and vulnerable bodies 163
Revelatory, magical and innovative powers 172
Six The Origins of Taro and the Culture of Famine 179
Food staples and travelling food 180
Nirut and the mythic origins of taro 184
Famine and the flight of food 188
Countering famine 194
Seven The Magical World of the Garden 201
The taro gardening cycle 201
Garden magic 203
Lemeravas and seating the place 220
Regimes of abstinence and bodily regulation 222
Eight Feasting and Fame: Finishing the Dead and
Lifting up the Names of the Living 227
The feasting cycle 228
Finishing the head of the deceased 235
CONTENTS Vll
Making power manifest, making the place heavy 257
Fame, movement, memory 263
Epilogue 273
Archival Sources 277
Bibliography 279
Index 291 |
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