An intriguing exploration of the role and significance of the body in the world of a Pacific Islands People, the Lelet of New Ireland (Papua New Guinea). In vivid ethnographic detail, the monograph captures the fluidity and complexity of Lelet conceptions of corporeality and their significance to identity as they encounter the influences of modernity, in the form of colonialism, Christianity and cash-cropping. The author examines the importance of the body to constructions of identity and difference, and its role in the constitution of place and space. The book provides a richly detailed ethnographic study of magical belief and the body whilst paying particular attention to the polyvalent meanings of bodily images and metaphors as they are used in numerous contexts of magic.
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This book is a valuable addition to a growing body of literature offering perspectives on Melanesian phenomenology, particularly with respect to the indigenous engagement with Christianity and the paraphernalia of colonialism. The creative adaptation of the Lelet and their cultural vitality in a fast-changing world are nicely captured here, in a clear and easily readable text.
–Michael Goddard of University of Newcastle, UK
–Michael Goddard of University of Newcastle, UK
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In his introduction to the edited collection Embodiment and Experience, Csordas notes that many anthropologists have followed the present trend toward making the body the centre of analysis, but use the term 'body' simply as a synonym for self or person without any sense of 'bodiliness' (1994b:4). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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In his introduction to the edited collection Embodiment and Experience, Csordas notes that many anthropologists have followed the present trend toward making the body the centre of analysis, but use the term 'body' simply as a synonym for self or person without any sense of 'bodiliness' (1994b:4). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
regenerative stalk, taro magic, kinship etiquette, weather magician, taro stalks, shell valuables, mortuary feasts, feast host, new taro, garden magic, heirloom valuables, large taro, taro tuber, successful feast, corporeal imagery, sorcery attack, taro plant, botanical matter, sun magic, arrival story, mortuary ceremonies, areca nut, wind magic, avoidance relationships, earth oven Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Ireland, Katan Moroa, Papua New Guinea, Holy Spirit, Tok Pisin, United Church, Duke of York Islands New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Varieties of Sensory Experience: A Sourcebook in the Anthropology of the Senses (Anthropological horizons) by David Howes in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Time and the Work of Anthropology: Critical Essays 1971-1981 (Studies in Anthropology and History) by Johanne Fabian in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Sorcerer And Witch In Melanesia by Michele Stephen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Global Culture, Island Identity: Continuity and Change in the Afro-Caribbean Community of Nevis (Studies in Anthropology and History, Vol. 8) by karen Fog Olwig in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics) by Maurice Merleau-Ponty in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Unstructuring Chinese Society: The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong Kong (Studies in Anthropology and History) by Allen Chun in Front Matter
- Unstructuring Chinese Society: The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of "Land" in the New Territories of Hong Kong (Studies in Anthropology and History) by Allen Chun in Front Matter
- The Hard People: Rivalry, Sympathy and Social Structure in an Alpine Valley (Studies in Anthropology and History) by Patrick Heady in Front Matter
- Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries: Social Categories and Lived Identity in the Yucatan (Studies in Anthropology and History) by Peter Hervik in Front Matter
- Humors and Substances: Ideas of the Body in New Guinea by Pamela J. Stewart on page 158
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