Children of the Blood: Society, Reproduction and Cosmology in New Guinea

ISBN-13: 9780367716820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 632 str.

Bernard Juillerat

Opis

This fascinating book, translated from the French, explores the Yafar society, a forest people living by shifting cultivation, hunting and gathering.

Spis treści

Foreword, Acknowledgments, Note to the English Translation, General Introduction, Transcription of Amanab Terms, Part I: Social Groups: Structures, Dynamics and Representations, 1. Society and Local Groups, 2 Dual Organization, 3. From Dualism to Patrilineal Units, 4. Household and Family, Part II: Social Relations and Symbolic Function in Yafar Social Economy, 5. Territory and Land, 6. Horticulture-Arboriculture, 7. Foraging and Husbandry, 8. Exchange and Circulation of Goods Among the Eri, Part III: Sexuality, Symbolic Reproduction and Social Continuity, 9. Sexuality, Procreation and Powers, 10. Alliance Structures and Matrimonial Behaviours, 11. Kinship and its Representations, 12. Individual Identity and Social Ontogeny, 13. Hidden Powers, 14. Bad Magic, Bow or Fighting Stick

O autorze

Bernard Juillerat Research Director,C.N.R.S., Paris Translated from the French by Nora Scott