South coast New Guinea cultures : history, comparison, dialectic / Bruce M. Knauft
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- 2815805
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- Knauft, Bruce M
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- Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993
- xii, 298 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0521418828
- 0521429315
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 89.
- Summary:
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Study of communities on the south coast of New Guinea including flamboyant sexual practices, the status of women, ritual and cosmology, political economy and violence.
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- Machine derived contents note: Part I. Grounding: 1. Theoretical and ethnographic context
- 2. Historical background and regional configuration
- Part II. Critique: 3. Sexuality in the regional analysis of south New Guinea
- 4. The analytic legacy of homosexual emphasis: language, subsistence, and political economy
- 5. Women's status
- 6. Trends in comparative analysis
- Part III. Reconfiguration: 7. Theoretical reconfiguration
- 8. Marind-anim
- 9. Symbolic and sociopolitical permutations
- 10. Regional characteristics and comparisons
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-289) and index.
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