Creative land : place and procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea /
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New York:
Berghahn Books,
2004
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Table of Contents:
- List of Maps, Figures, Tables, and Photographs ix
- Acknowledgements xi
- Notes on the Text xv
- Preface xvii
- Introduction 1
- The Rai Coast 1
- Chapter 1: Process and Kinship 21
- Kinship, Process, and Creativity 22
- Cognation and Flexibility 26
- An Alternative to the Genealogical Model 29
- The Palem 31
- Chapter 2: Residence History and Palem 33
- Hamlets Past and Present 33
- Hamlets as Social Groups 41
- The Labours of Lawrence 49
- Complexity 52
- Chapter 3: Marrying Sisters 57
- Defining Relationships 57
- Myths and Explanations 75
- Chapter 4: Gardens, Land, and Growth 91
- Origin Points 92
- Gendered Productivity: The Tambaran 93
- Households and Gardens 100
- Gardening, not 'Production' 101
- Gardens, Land, and Substance 114
- Male Continuity, Female Movement 118
- Chapter 5: Birth, Emergence, and Exchange 127
- The Transactions Between Affinal Kin Focused on Children 128
- Mother's Brothers in the Anthropological Literature 143
- Affinal Payments and Lineality in Reite 145
- Visibility and Recognition 151
- Chapter 6: Spirit, Flesh, and Bone 159
- The Palem as a Body 159
- Performing Places. People and Spirits as Land Made Mobile 177
- Chapter 7: Places and Bodies, Landscape and Perception 193
- The Concept of Landscape in Anthropology 196
- Hearing and Vision as Sensory Modalities 201
- Landscape in the Nekgini Lifeworld 206
- Chapter 8: Creative Land 211
- Land, Place, and Person 211
- Simple Principles, Complex Process 215
- Creativity 216
- Glossary 219
- References 221
- Index 229