Acting For Others : Relational Transformations In Papua New Guinea
BONNEMERE Pascale / SCOTT Nora
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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 ...
Publication date: 2018-01-26
Number of pages: 300
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subjects:
Category, Non-fiction, Humanities, History, Pasifika, Papua New Guinea
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