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South Coast New Guinea Cultures

History, Comparison, Dialectic

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Paperback | 24 May 1993

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The communities of south coast New Guinea were the subject of classic ethnographies, and fresh studies in recent decades have put these rich and complex cultures at the centre of anthropological debates. Flamboyant sexual practices, such as ritual homosexuality, have attracted particular interest. In the first general book on the region, Dr Knauft reaches striking new comparative conclusions through a careful ethnographic analysis of sexuality, the status of women, ritual and cosmology, political economy, and violence among the region's seven major language-culture areas. The findings suggest new Melanesian regional contrasts and provide for a general critique of the way regional comparisons are constructed in anthropology. Theories of practice and political economy as well as post-modern insights are drawn upon to provide a generative theory of indigenous social and symbolic development.

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"In the 1990s, a comparative ethnography of a region extending some 2,500 kilometers must be either very old-fashioned or postmodern. This work has the virtues of both...The result is a stimulating and useful book." Choice

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Grounding
Theoretical and ethnographic context
Historical background and regional configuration
Critique
Sexuality in the regional analysis of south New Guinea
The analytic legacy of homosexual emphasis: language, subsistence, and political economy
Women's status
Trends in comparative analysis
Reconfiguration
Theoretical reconfiguration
Marind-anim
Symbolic and sociopolitical permutations
Regional characteristics and comparisons
Appendix
Notes
References
Index.
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South Coast New Guinea Cultures

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