Machine generated contents note: List of Maps, Figures, Tables, and Photographs ix -- Acknowledgements xi -- Notes on the Text xv -- Preface xvii --Introduction 1 -- The Rai Coast 1 --Chapter 1: Process and Kinship 21 -- Kinship, Process, and Creativity 22 -- Cognation and Flexibility 26 -- An Alternative to the Genealogical Model 29 -- The Palem 31 --Chapter 2: Residence History and Palem 33 -- Hamlets Past and Present 33 -- Hamlets as Social Groups 41 -- The Labours of Lawrence 49 -- Complexity 52 --Chapter 3: Marrying Sisters 57 -- Defining Relationships 57 -- Myths and Explanations 75 --Chapter 4: Gardens, Land, and Growth 91 -- Origin Points 92 --Gendered Productivity: The Tambaran 93 -- Households and Gardens 100 -- Gardening, not 'Production' 101 -- Gardens, Land, and Substance 114 -- Male Continuity, Female Movement 118 --Chapter 5: Birth, Emergence, and Exchange 127 -- The Transactions Between Affinal Kin Focused on Children 128 -- Mother's Brothers in the Anthropological Literature 143 -- Affinal Payments and Lineality in Reite 145 -- Visibility and Recognition 151 --Chapter 6: Spirit, Flesh, and Bone 159 -- The Palem as a Body 159 -- Performing Places. People and Spirits as |