The heart of the pearl shell : the mythological dimension of Foi sociality / / James F. Weiner

• Autore: Weiner James F.
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1988]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 995/.0049912
• Soggetto topico: Foi (Papua New Guinean people); Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - Oceania; History & Archaeology
• Note generali: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Australian National University).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The heart of the pearl shell
• ISBN: 0-585-13502-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910496148103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; ; 5.