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Paperback. Condizione: New. Over the past two decades, "chaos theory" - the perception of order previously hidden in phenomena of apparent randomness and disorder - has fundamentally transformed the natural sciences. In recent years, numerous scholars in the social sciences and humanities have attempted to adapt the insights of chaos theory to their studies of human cultural and social systems. Several of the world's leading anthropologists, such as Roy Wagner, Marshall Sahlins, Marilyn Strathern, and Arjun Appadurai - have similarly drawn upon particular elements of chaos theory for their inspiration, but as yet there is no focused, comprehensive treatment of the applicability of chaos theory to anthropology's distinctive ethnographic and cross-cultural materials. This edited volume fills the gap, with both accessible theoretical discussions of chaos theory applications in anthropology and detailed ethnographic and historical illustrations from Africa and Melanesia.

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Paperback. Condizione: New. Over the past two decades, "chaos theory" - the perception of order previously hidden in phenomena of apparent randomness and disorder - has fundamentally transformed the natural sciences. In recent years, numerous scholars in the social sciences and humanities have attempted to adapt the insights of chaos theory to their studies of human cultural and social systems. Several of the world's leading anthropologists, such as Roy Wagner, Marshall Sahlins, Marilyn Strathern, and Arjun Appadurai - have similarly drawn upon particular elements of chaos theory for their inspiration, but as yet there is no focused, comprehensive treatment of the applicability of chaos theory to anthropology's distinctive ethnographic and cross-cultural materials. This edited volume fills the gap, with both accessible theoretical discussions of chaos theory applications in anthropology and detailed ethnographic and historical illustrations from Africa and Melanesia.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Bronislaw Malinowskis path-breaking research in the Trobriand Islands shaped much of modern anthropologys disciplinary paradigm. Yet many conundrums remain. For example, Malinowski asserted that baloma spirits of the dead were responsible for procreation but had limited influence on their living descendants in magic and other matters, claims largely unchallenged by subsequent field investigators, until now. Based on extended fieldwork at Omarakana villagehome of the Tabalu Paramount ChiefMark S. Mosko argues instead that these and virtually all contexts of indigenous sociality are conceived as sacrificial reciprocities between the mirror worlds that baloma and humans inhabit. Informed by a synthesis of Stratherns model of dividual personhood and Levy-Bruhls theory of participation, Mosko upends a century of discussion and debate extending from Malinowski to anthropologys other leading thinkers. His account of the intimate interdependencies of humans and spirits in the cosmic generation and coordination of life (momova) and death (kaliga) strikes at the nexus of anthropologys received wisdom, and Ways of Baloma will inevitably lead practitioners and students to reflect anew on the disciplines multifold theories of personhood, ritual agency, and sociality. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xiii, 298 pages. Notes; Bibliography: p278-288. - Includes index. Contents; Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures, tables, and maps; Preface; 1 Introduction: the problem and the people; Quadripartite structures in anthropological perspective; The Bush Mekeo; 2 Between village and bush; Village and bush -- outside and inside; The daily cycle and ordinary village/bush transfers; Inverted outside and everted inside; Extraordinary village/bush transfers; Aboveground versus belowground; 3 Body and cosmos; The clean, the dirty, and the human; Village resources: sweet/unsweet; Food and water transformations. Nonfood transformations: work and nonworkFood digestion, blood synthesis, and dirt; Health, illness, and curing; Body homologies; 4 Sex, procreation, and menstruation; Sexuality in the ordinary and extraordinary spheres; Sexuality and bodily transformations; Procreation versus menstruation; Women must not menstruate; The story of Amaka; 5 Male and female; The ritual cycle of the female; The ritual cycle of the male; Gender differentiation and areca nut chewing; Female inversion/eversion of male; The myth of Foikale; The story of afinama; 6 Kin, clan, and connubium. Relationships of blood and nonbloodBlood relatives or kin; Affines (ipa ngaua); Moiety, clan, and lineage; Clans, residence, and working together; The oral history of Nganga clan; Clanship and women's children; An alternate sibling term -- ekefaka; The rules of marriage; Marriage rule I: cognatic proscription; Marriage rule II: agnatic proscription; Marriage rule III: papie ngaunga proscription; Marriage rule IV: kofuapie prescription; Marriage rule V: sister exchange; Marriage in alternating generations; Marriage compensation; Homologies of the system. 7 Feasts of death (i): de-conception andre-conceptionThe agents and methods of bodily death; The aftermath of death: village hot and village cold; The final death feast: village cold and village hot; Feast foods, bloods, relations, and de-conception; Happiness, conception, de-conception, and re-conception; Feasting homologies; 8 Feasts of death (ii): the sons of Akaisa; Ikufuka meat and the blood of Akaisa Men; Akaisa myth 1: inauguration of hereditary offi; Akaisa myth 2: Akaisa and Tsabini; Ikufuka meat; The mythical Akaisa; 9 Tikopia and the Trobriands; Tikopia; The Trobriands. 10 Conclusions: indigenous categories, cultural wholes, and historical processAppendixes; Appendix 1 Village resources derived from bush resources; Appendix 2 Ingestion and ingestibles; Appendix 3 Categories of food; Appendix 4 Work and nonwork skills; Work skills; Nonwork skills; Appendix 5 Categories of human dirt; Appendix 6 The myth of Foikale and Oa Lope; Version Fi*; Version Fii*; Version Fiii*; Appendix 7 The afinama myth; Version Ai*; Version Aii*; Version Aiii*; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 3 Kg.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Over the past two decades, chaos theory the perception of order previously hidden in phenomena of apparent randomness and disorder has fundamentally transformed the natural sciences. In recent years, numerous scholars in the social sciences and humanities have attempted to adapt the insights of chaos theory to their studies of human cultural and social systems. Several of the worlds leading anthropologists, such as Roy Wagner, Marshall Sahlins, Marilyn Strathern, and Arjun Appadurai have similarly drawn upon particular elements of chaos theory for their inspiration, but as yet there is no focused, comprehensive treatment of the applicability of chaos theory to anthropologys distinctive ethnographic and cross-cultural materials. This edited volume fills the gap, with both accessible theoretical discussions of chaos theory applications in anthropology and detailed ethnographic and historical illustrations from Africa and Melanesia. "Through a sequence of theoretically stimulating and ethnographically diverse contributions, the volume engages with 'chaos models' developed by mathematicians and natural scientists studying complex dynamic systems." A Anthropological Forum "I have rarely seen such an excellent collection of articles. And it cannot be more timely. Within the covers of this volume we find some of the most original and brightest minds in anthropology today.this is a truly unique volume that will make a major and original contribution to anthropology and far beyond." A Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney Over the past two decades, "chaos theory" - the perception of order previously hidden in phenomena of apparent randomness and disorder - has fundamentally transformed the natural sciences. In recent years, numerous scholars in the social sciences and humanities have attempted to adapt the insights of chaos theory to their studies of human cultural and social systems. Several of the world's leading anthropologists, such as Roy Wagner, Marshall Sahlins, Marilyn Strathern, and Arjun Appadurai - have similarly drawn upon particular elements of chaos theory for their inspiration, but as yet there is no focused, comprehensive treatment of the applicability of chaos theory to anthropology's distinctive ethnographic and cross-cultural materials. This edited volume fills the gap, with both accessible theoretical discussions of chaos theory applications in anthropology and detailed ethnographic and historical illustrations from Africa and Melanesi Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994. (8)+409+(2) sid. 8:o. Vikt: 943 gram. Limmat mjukband. Något skavd pärm med mindre ve ck. Biblioteksstämpel på titelbladet, annars.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Hardcover. Mark S. Mosko is Professor, Department of Anthropology, School of Culture, History & Language, Emeritus Professor, Australia National University. For approximately 40 years (1974-2015), his research was concentrated on the ethnography of (Austronesian) North Mekeo peoples of the Central Province of Papua New Guinea. The Mekeo are an indigenous people who are known to have inhabited only this region. Their contact with the outside world began in the 1840s and was accelerated by the arrival of French Catholic missionaries beginning in 1875. Most of the Mekeo were converted to Christianity, but their initial population of 20-30,000 was devastated by diseases introduced by the outsiders. The massive deaths led to an escalation of traditional sorcery for which the Mekeo are still renowned. Mosko's publications have focused on traditional and changing patterns of social organization, religion and cosmology, myth, personhood, gender, chieftainship, commoditization, land tenure, and Christian conversion. This scholarly anthropological work was first published in 1985. Available copies are generally reprints from the period 2008-2009. A copy from 1985 is very rare. Octavo. Black cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Slight bumping to spine ends. Light browning to end pages. Else is pristine. Black dust jacket with yellow title to front and spine panels. Slight creasing to spine ends of dust jacket. Index, 298 pages. South Pacific. SOUPAC/051111.

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Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. On the Order of Chaos: Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos. Book.

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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xiii, 298 pages. Notes; Bibliography: p278-288. - Includes index. Contents; Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures, tables, and maps; Preface; 1 Introduction: the problem and the people; Quadripartite structures in anthropological perspective; The Bush Mekeo; 2 Between village and bush; Village and bush -- outside and inside; The daily cycle and ordinary village/bush transfers; Inverted outside and everted inside; Extraordinary village/bush transfers; Aboveground versus belowground; 3 Body and cosmos; The clean, the dirty, and the human; Village resources: sweet/unsweet; Food and water transformations. Nonfood transformations: work and nonworkFood digestion, blood synthesis, and dirt; Health, illness, and curing; Body homologies; 4 Sex, procreation, and menstruation; Sexuality in the ordinary and extraordinary spheres; Sexuality and bodily transformations; Procreation versus menstruation; Women must not menstruate; The story of Amaka; 5 Male and female; The ritual cycle of the female; The ritual cycle of the male; Gender differentiation and areca nut chewing; Female inversion/eversion of male; The myth of Foikale; The story of afinama; 6 Kin, clan, and connubium. Relationships of blood and nonbloodBlood relatives or kin; Affines (ipa ngaua); Moiety, clan, and lineage; Clans, residence, and working together; The oral history of Nganga clan; Clanship and women's children; An alternate sibling term -- ekefaka; The rules of marriage; Marriage rule I: cognatic proscription; Marriage rule II: agnatic proscription; Marriage rule III: papie ngaunga proscription; Marriage rule IV: kofuapie prescription; Marriage rule V: sister exchange; Marriage in alternating generations; Marriage compensation; Homologies of the system. 7 Feasts of death (i): de-conception andre-conceptionThe agents and methods of bodily death; The aftermath of death: village hot and village cold; The final death feast: village cold and village hot; Feast foods, bloods, relations, and de-conception; Happiness, conception, de-conception, and re-conception; Feasting homologies; 8 Feasts of death (ii): the sons of Akaisa; Ikufuka meat and the blood of Akaisa Men; Akaisa myth 1: inauguration of hereditary offi; Akaisa myth 2: Akaisa and Tsabini; Ikufuka meat; The mythical Akaisa; 9 Tikopia and the Trobriands; Tikopia; The Trobriands. 10 Conclusions: indigenous categories, cultural wholes, and historical processAppendixes; Appendix 1 Village resources derived from bush resources; Appendix 2 Ingestion and ingestibles; Appendix 3 Categories of food; Appendix 4 Work and nonwork skills; Work skills; Nonwork skills; Appendix 5 Categories of human dirt; Appendix 6 The myth of Foikale and Oa Lope; Version Fi*; Version Fii*; Version Fiii*; Appendix 7 The afinama myth; Version Ai*; Version Aii*; Version Aiii*; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 1 Kg.