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Saltwater Sociality : A Melanesian Island Ethnography / Katharina Schneider.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780857453013
  • 9780857453020
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.099592
LOC classification:
  • GN671.N5 .S33 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- A NOTE ON LANGUAGES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Maps -- INTRODUCTION Pororan and Buka, 2004 -- CHAPTER 1 Fishing People -- CHAPTER 2 Kin on the Move -- CHAPTER 3 Mobile Places -- Image section -- CHAPTER 4 Pinaposa -- CHAPTER 5 Marriage and Mortuary Rites -- CHAPTER 6 Movements and Kastom -- Conclusion -- GLOSSARY Hapororan and Tok Pisin Terms -- APPENDIX A Pororan Travel Routes, 2004–05 -- APPENDIX B Some Fishing Terms -- APPENDIX C Tok Pisin and Hapororan Kin Terms -- APPENDIX D Stories and Solomon -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of ‘saltwater people’ in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movements, they take their cues about the current state of social relations. Based on detailed ethnography, this study engages current Melanesian anthropological theory and argues that movements are the Pororans’ predominant mode of objectifying relations. Movements on Pororan Island are to its inhabitants what roads are to ‘mainlanders’ on the nearby larger island, and what material objects and images are to others elsewhere in Melanesia.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- A NOTE ON LANGUAGES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Maps -- INTRODUCTION Pororan and Buka, 2004 -- CHAPTER 1 Fishing People -- CHAPTER 2 Kin on the Move -- CHAPTER 3 Mobile Places -- Image section -- CHAPTER 4 Pinaposa -- CHAPTER 5 Marriage and Mortuary Rites -- CHAPTER 6 Movements and Kastom -- Conclusion -- GLOSSARY Hapororan and Tok Pisin Terms -- APPENDIX A Pororan Travel Routes, 2004–05 -- APPENDIX B Some Fishing Terms -- APPENDIX C Tok Pisin and Hapororan Kin Terms -- APPENDIX D Stories and Solomon -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of ‘saltwater people’ in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movements, they take their cues about the current state of social relations. Based on detailed ethnography, this study engages current Melanesian anthropological theory and argues that movements are the Pororans’ predominant mode of objectifying relations. Movements on Pororan Island are to its inhabitants what roads are to ‘mainlanders’ on the nearby larger island, and what material objects and images are to others elsewhere in Melanesia.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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