South Coast New Guinea Cultures

South Coast New Guinea Cultures
Author: Bruce M. Knauft
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1993-03-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780521429313

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.

Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Mundas-Phrygians

Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Mundas-Phrygians
Author: James Hastings
Publisher:
Total Pages: 942
Release: 1917
Genre: Ethics
ISBN:

Scope: theology, philosophy, ethics of various religions and ethical systems and relevant portions of anthropology, mythology, folklore, biology, psychology, economics and sociology.