02385pam 2200529 a 450 991049614810332120230331015416.00-585-13502-9(CKB)111004366699820(MH)001545531-9(SSID)ssj0000169791(PQKBManifestationID)12023581(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000169791(PQKBWorkID)10203743(PQKB)11603818(EXLCZ)9911100436669982019870909d1988 ub 0engurun#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe heart of the pearl shell the mythological dimension of Foi sociality /James F. WeinerBerkeley :University of California Press,[1988]1 online resource (xviii, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) illustrationsStudies in Melanesian anthropology ;5Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Australian National University).0-520-06132-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.The Ethnographic Setting -- The Responsibility of Males -- Oil, Shells, and Meat: The Media of Foi Sociality -- The Solicitude of Affines -- Metaphor and Substitution -- Obviation and Myth -- Intersexual Mediation -- Female Reproductivity -- The Anxiety of Affines -- Complementarity, Exchange, and Reciprocity -- The Hidden Myth.Studies in Melanesian anthropology ;5.Foi (Papua New Guinean people)Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - OceaniaHILCCHistory & ArchaeologyHILCCFoi (Papua New Guinean people)Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - OceaniaHistory & Archaeology995/.0049912Weiner James F.968389DLCDLCHLSBOOK9910496148103321The heart of the pearl shell2859351UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress