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Creative Land : Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea - James Leach

Creative Land

Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea

By: James Leach

Hardcover | 1 July 2003

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What is creative in kinship? How are people connected to places? James Leach answers these questions through formulating "creativity" as an integral part of kinship on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. The book contains a new critique of the genealogical model of kinship, suggesting that this model prevents us from grasping the way generative relations, including those to land and place, constitute persons on the Rai Coast. Analytic attention is focused upon the life cycle, marriage, exchange and artistic production as the activities in which substantial connection is generated. The argument, made in relation to detailed ethnography, yields a fresh perspective on the connections people trace to each other.

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"What is new in Leach's account is the emphasis Nekgini speakers put on land. His attention to this emphasis makes his ethnography in many ways a powerful development... the book as a whole is consistently stimulating and theoretically sophisticated throughout." · Joel Robbins, Contemporary Pacific

"The ethnography itself is full of interesting observations and novel information, and repays a close reading with a vivid sense of the distinctiveness of Reite social life...Creative Land is itself 'creative' and will attain its own 'place' in the historical 'landscape' of studies of kinship in New Guinea and elsewhere. · Andrew Strathern, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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Published: 1st August 2004

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