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An edition of South coast New Guinea cultures (1993)

South coast New Guinea cultures

history, comparison, dialectic

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The communities of south coast New Guinea were the subject of classic ethnographies, and fresh studies in recent decades have put these rich and complex cultures at the center of anthropological debates. Flamboyant sexual practices such as ritual homosexuality have attracted particular interest. In the first general book on the region, Dr.

Knauft reaches striking new comparative conclusions through a careful ethnographic analysis of sexuality, the status of women, ritual and cosmology, political economy, and violence among the region's seven major language-culture areas. The findings suggest new Melanesian regional contrasts and provide for a general critique of the way regional comparisons are constructed in anthropology.

Theories of practice and political economy as well as postmodern insights are drawn upon to provide a generative theory of indigenous social and symbolic development.

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Cambridge University Press
Language
English
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298

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Subjects

Social life and customs, Melanesians, Ethnology, Sexual behavior, New guinea, social life and customs, Ethnology, new guinea

Places

New Guinea

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South Coast New Guinea Cultures: History, Comparison, Dialectic
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South Coast New Guinea Cultures: History, Comparison, Dialectic
2009, Cambridge University Press
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South coast New Guinea cultures: history, comparison, dialectic
1993, Cambridge University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-289) and index.

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Cambridge [England], New York, NY, USA
Series
Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ;, 89

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Dewey Decimal Class
306/.0995
Library of Congress
GN671.N5 K64 1993

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xii, 298 p. :
Number of pages
298

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OL1710576M
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0521418828, 0521429315
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92012472
OCLC/WorldCat
25629339
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7845973
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5059442

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