Saltwater Sociality : a Melanesian Island Ethnography.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (262 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780857453020
- 0857453025
- 0857453017
- 9780857453013
- Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Bougainville Island Region
- Matrilineal kinship -- Papua New Guinea -- Bougainville Island Region
- Sex role -- Papua New Guinea -- Bougainville Island Region
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- Ethnology
- Matrilineal kinship
- Sex role
- 306.099592
- GN671.N5 .S33 2012
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List of Tables; A Note on Languages; Preface; Acknowledgements; Maps; Introduction; 1. Fishing People; 2. Kin on the Move; 3. Mobile Places; 4. Pinaposa; 5. Marriage and Mortuary Rites; 6. Movements and Kastom; Conclusion; Glossary; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Bibliography; Index.
The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of 'saltwater people' in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movements, they take their cues about the current state of social relations. Based on detailed ethnography, this study engages current Melanesian anthropological theory and argues that movements are the Pororans' predominant mode of objectifying relations. Movements on Pororan Island are to its inhabitants what.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index.
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