Saltwater Sociality : a Melanesian Island Ethnography.

By:

Schneider, Katharina

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (262 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780857453020
0857453025
0857453017
9780857453013

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Saltwater Sociality : A Melanesian Island Ethnography.DDC classification:

306.099592

LOC classification:

GN671.N5 .S33 2012

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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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.