This classic ethnography, now in second edition, describes the traditional way of life of the Kaluli, a tropical forest people of Papua New Guinea. The book takes as its focus the nostalgic and violent Gisaro ceremony, one of the most remarkable performances in the anthropological literature. Tracking the major symbolic and emotional themes of the ceremony to their sources in everyday Kaluli life, Schieffelin shows how the central values and passions of Kaluli experience are governed by the basic forms of social reciprocity. However, Gisaro also reveals that social reciprocity is not limited to the dynamics of transaction, obligation, and alliance. It emerges, rather, as a mode of symbolic action and performative form, embodying a cultural scenario which shapes Kaluli emotional experience and moral sensibility and permeates their understanding of the human condition.
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Edward L. Schieffelin is Reader Emeritus, University College, London.
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The first Europeans to visit the region of the Great Papuan Plateau, Jack Hides and Jim O'Malley, led a patrol from the Strickland River to the Purari River in 1934 and 1935. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ane kalu, opposition scenario, sago camp, ane mama, kalo bird, reciprocal name, other longhouses, longhouse community, smoked game, own longhouse, sago grubs, longhouse communities, waving axes, mama world, entrance ladder, dancing space, garden labor, cultural scenario, invisible side, opposition process Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The first Europeans to visit the region of the Great Papuan Plateau, Jack Hides and Jim O'Malley, led a patrol from the Strickland River to the Purari River in 1934 and 1935. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ane kalu, opposition scenario, sago camp, ane mama, kalo bird, reciprocal name, other longhouses, longhouse community, smoked game, own longhouse, sago grubs, longhouse communities, waving axes, mama world, entrance ladder, dancing space, garden labor, cultural scenario, invisible side, opposition process Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Isawa River, New Guinea, Ilib Kuwa, Dubia Ridge New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Huli of Papua by Robert M. Glasse in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Papuan Wonderland: The Story of "The Most Difficult and Dangerous Patrol Ever Carried Out" in Papua-New Guinea by Jack Gordon Hides in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Senses of Place (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) by Steven Feld in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Give And Take of Everyday Life: Language Socialization of Kaluli Children by Bambi B. Schieffelin in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Language and the Politics of Emotion (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction) by Catherine A. Lutz in Front Matter
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