Acting for others : relational transformations in Papua New Guinea / by Pascale Bonnemère ; translated by Nora Scott
- Bib ID:
- 7857071
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bonnemere, Pascale, author
- Uniform Title:
- Agir pour un autre. English
- Description:
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- Chicago : Hau Books, [2018]
- ©2018
- xxi, 295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9780997367584 (paperback)
- 099736758X (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- Foreword / Marilyn Strathern
- Preface to the English translation
- Introduction
- 1. An out-of-the-way situation : prohibitions and relations
- 2. "Your wife is pregnant. Cover your head"
- 3. Accompanying a birth
- 4. Transmitting know-how
- 5. A long ritual journey
- 6. Abstaining for oneself, abstaining for others
- 7. Exchanges and prohibitions : a relational view
- 8. Male metamorphoses
- 9. Women's lives : a path unmarked by rituals? Part 1
- 10. The brother-sister relationship through the years
- 11. Women's lives : a path unmarked by rituals? Part 2
- 12. A few other relational figures?
- 13. "The Melanesian person" : debates
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
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- Revised and slightly augmented translation of: Agir pour un autre : la construction de la personne masculine en Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée. 2015.
- Includes bibliographical references 265-282 and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
- Relational transformations in Papua New Guinea
- Copyright:
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