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Acting for others : relational transformations in Papua New Guinea

Bonnemere, Pascale, author, Scott, Nora, translator, Strathern, Marilyn, writer of foreword

Overview

For the Ankave of Papua New Guinea, men, unlike women, do not reach adulthood and become fathers simply by growing up and reproducing. What fathers - and by extension, men - actually are is a result of a series of relational transformations, operated in and by rituals in which men and women both perform complementary actions in separate spaces. 'Acting for Others' is a tour de force in Melanesian ethnography, gender studies, and theories of ritual. Based on years of fieldwork conducted by the author and her husband and co-ethnographer, this book's 'double view' of the Ankave ritual cycle - from women in the village and from the men in the forest - is novel, provocative, and one of the most incisive analyses of the emergence of ideas of gender in Papua New Guinea since Marilyn Strathern's 'The Gender of the Gift'.

• Publisher: HAU Books
• Subject: Ankave (Papua New Guinean people) Rites and ceremonies. / Ankave (Papua New Guinean people) Social life and customs. / Papua New Guinea Civilization.
• ISBN: 9780997367584

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DU740.42.B66 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE