9780521264525 - Quadripartite Structures: Categories, Relations and Homologies in Bush Mekeo Culture di Mosko, Mark S. (3 risultati)

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.

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.

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