Acting for others :: relational transformations in Papua New Guinea /

"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 bo...

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1. Verfasser: Bonnemère, Pascale (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Scott, Nora (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : Hau Books, [2018]
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Online-Zugang:DE-862
DE-863
Zusammenfassung:"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'"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxi, 295 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-282) and index.
ISBN:9781912808540
1912808544

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