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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2003]Copyright date: 2003Description: 1 online resource (258 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789205831
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.83/089/9912 21
LOC classification:
  • DU740.42 .L433 2004
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps, Figures, Tables, and Photographs -- Notes on the Text -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One Process and Kinship -- Chapter Two Residence History and Palem -- Chapter Three Marrying Sisters -- Chapter Four Gardens, Land, and Growth -- Chapter Five Birth, Emergence, and Exchange -- Chapter Six Spirit, Flesh, and Bone -- Chapter Seven Places and Bodies, Landscape and Perception -- Chapter Eight Creative Land -- Glossary -- References -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps, Figures, Tables, and Photographs -- Notes on the Text -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One Process and Kinship -- Chapter Two Residence History and Palem -- Chapter Three Marrying Sisters -- Chapter Four Gardens, Land, and Growth -- Chapter Five Birth, Emergence, and Exchange -- Chapter Six Spirit, Flesh, and Bone -- Chapter Seven Places and Bodies, Landscape and Perception -- Chapter Eight Creative Land -- Glossary -- References -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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