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Inviting happiness : food sharing in Mongolia
\"For Mongols, sharing food is more than just eating meals. Through a process of \"opening\" and \"closing\", on a daily basis or at events, in the family circle or with visitors, sharing food guarantees the proper order of social relations. It also ensures the course of the seasons and the cycle of human life. Through food sharing, humans thus invite happiness to their families and herds. Sandrine Ruhlmann has lived long months, since 2000, in the Mongolian steppe and in the city. She describes and analyzes in detail the contemporary food system and recognizes intertwined ideas and values inherited from shamanism, Buddhism and communist ideology. Through meat-on-the-bone, creamy milk skin, dumplings or sole-shaped cakes, she highlights a whole way of thinking and living\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Acting for others : relational transformations in Papua New Guinea
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'.
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