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Creative land : place and procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea / / James Leach
| Creative land : place and procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea / / James Leach |
| Autore | Leach James <1969-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 236 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 306.83/089/9912 |
| Soggetto topico |
Nekgini (Papua New Guinean people) - Kinship
Nekgini (Papua New Guinean people) - Economic conditions Human ecology - Papua New Guinea - Madang Province |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-78920-583-2
1-57181-693-3 1-57181-556-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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 Land Made Mobile 177 --Chapter 7: Places and Bodies, Landscape and Perception 193 -- The Concept of Landscape in Anthropology 196 -- Hearing and Vision as Sensory Modalities 201 -- Landscape in the Nekgini Lifeworld 206 --Chapter 8: Creative Land 211 -- Land, Place, and Person 211 -- Simple Principles, Complex Process 215 -- Creativity 216 --Glossary 219 -- References 221 -- Index 229. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910493679703321 |
Leach James <1969->
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| New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Creative land : place and procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea / / James Leach
| Creative land : place and procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea / / James Leach |
| Autore | Leach James <1969-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 236 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 306.83/089/9912 |
| Soggetto topico |
Nekgini (Papua New Guinean people) - Kinship
Nekgini (Papua New Guinean people) - Economic conditions Human ecology - Papua New Guinea - Madang Province |
| ISBN |
1-78920-583-2
1-57181-693-3 1-57181-556-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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 Land Made Mobile 177 --Chapter 7: Places and Bodies, Landscape and Perception 193 -- The Concept of Landscape in Anthropology 196 -- Hearing and Vision as Sensory Modalities 201 -- Landscape in the Nekgini Lifeworld 206 --Chapter 8: Creative Land 211 -- Land, Place, and Person 211 -- Simple Principles, Complex Process 215 -- Creativity 216 --Glossary 219 -- References 221 -- Index 229. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792396103321 |
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Leach James <1969->
|
||
| New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Creative land : place and procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea / / James Leach
| Creative land : place and procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea / / James Leach |
| Autore | Leach James <1969-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 236 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 306.83/089/9912 |
| Soggetto topico |
Nekgini (Papua New Guinean people) - Kinship
Nekgini (Papua New Guinean people) - Economic conditions Human ecology - Papua New Guinea - Madang Province |
| ISBN |
1-78920-583-2
1-57181-693-3 1-57181-556-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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 Land Made Mobile 177 --Chapter 7: Places and Bodies, Landscape and Perception 193 -- The Concept of Landscape in Anthropology 196 -- Hearing and Vision as Sensory Modalities 201 -- Landscape in the Nekgini Lifeworld 206 --Chapter 8: Creative Land 211 -- Land, Place, and Person 211 -- Simple Principles, Complex Process 215 -- Creativity 216 --Glossary 219 -- References 221 -- Index 229. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814531103321 |
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Leach James <1969->
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| New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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