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

Children of the Blood : Society, Reproduction and Cosmology in New Guinea
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Children of the Blood : Society, Reproduction and Cosmology in New Guinea, This fascinating book, translated from the French, explores the Yafar society, a forest people living by shifting cultivation, hunting and gathering. Based on fifteen years of research, it offers a detailed examination of all aspects of a society whose ma, Children of the Blood : Society, Reproduction and Cosmology in New Guinea
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  • Children of the Blood : Society, Reproduction and Cosmology in New Guinea
  • Written by author Bernard Juillerat, John Gledhill, Bruce Kapferer, Barbara Bender, Nora Scott
  • Published by Berg Publishers, 1997/02/01
  • This fascinating book, translated from the French, explores the Yafar society, a forest people living by shifting cultivation, hunting and gathering. Based on fifteen years of research, it offers a detailed examination of all aspects of a society whose ma
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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Note to the English Translation
General Introduction
Transcription of Amanab Terms
Pt. I Social Groups: Structures, Dynamics and Representations
1 Society and Local Groups 5
2 Dual Organization 38
3 From Dualism to Patrilineal Units 73
4 Household and Family 92
Pt. II Social Relations and Symbolic Function in Yafar Social Economy
5 Territory and Land 109
6 Horticulture-Arboriculture 139
7 Foraging and Husbandry 165
8 Exchange and Circulation of Goods Among the Eri 221
Pt. III Sexuality, Symbolic Reproduction and Social Continuity
9 Sexuality, Procreation and Powers 237
10 Alliance Structures and Matrimonial Behaviours 289
11 Kinship and its Representations 336
12 Individual Identity and Social Ontogeny 364
13 Hidden Powers 422
14 Bad Magic, Bow or Fighting Stick 460
Pt. IV Fracture and Change
15 Contact: Colonization, Independence and Identity 511
Conclusion 545
App. A Linguistic Note 551
App. B The Sexual Division of Labour 555
App. C Kinship Terms 559
Glossary 563
Bibliography 571
Index 582


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