TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schneider,Katharina
TI  - Saltwater Sociality: A Melanesian Island Ethnography 
SN  - 9780857453013
AV  - GN671.N5 .S33 2012 
U1  - 306.099592 
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Papua New Guinea
KW  - Bougainville Island Region
KW  - Matrilineal kinship
KW  - Sex role
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Environmental Studies (General), Anthropology (General)
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857453020
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857453020
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780857453020/original
ER  -