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The myths of the Gimi, a people of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, attribute the origin of death and misery to the incestuous desires of the first woman or man, as if one sex or the other were guilty of the very first misdeed. Working for years among the Gimi, speaking their language, anthropologist Gillian Gillison gained rare insight into these myths and their pervasive influence in the organization of social life. Hers is a fascinating account of relations between the sexes and the role of myth in the transition between unconscious fantasy and cultural forms.
The myths of the Gimi, a people of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, attribute the origin of death and misery to the incestuous desires of the first woman or man, as if one sex or the other were guilty of the very first misdeed. Working for years among the Gimi, speaking their language, anthropologist Gillian Gillison gained rare insight into these myths and their pervasive influence in the organization of social life. Hers is a fascinating account of relations between the sexes and the role of myth in the transition between unconscious fantasy and cultural forms.
Gillison shows how the themes expressed in Gimi myths--especially sexual hostility and an obsession with menstrual blood--are dramatized in the elaborate public rituals that accompany marriage, death, and other life crises. The separate myths of Gimi women and men seem to speak to one another, to protest, alter, and enlarge upon myths of the other sex. The sexes cast blame in the veiled imagery of myth and then play out their debate in joint rituals, cooperating in shows of conflict and resolution that leave men undefeated and accord women the greater blame for misfortune.
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Gillian Gillison is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto.
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Gimi myths seem not only to "think among themselves," as Levi-Strauss says, but also to speak to one another, to protest, alter, and enlarge upon myths of the other sex. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
neki maha, kore bana, ancestral kore, possum feces, uncultivated greens, head payments, flute plug, flute food, flute myth, white pandanus, crying hole, matrilateral kinsmen, red pandanus fruit, clan forest, paternal kinsmen, marsupial meat, red cordyline, mythic father, second vagina, cannibal meal, maternal kinsmen, giant penis, worked sorcery, wild sugarcane, flute house Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Gimi myths seem not only to "think among themselves," as Levi-Strauss says, but also to speak to one another, to protest, alter, and enlarge upon myths of the other sex. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
neki maha, kore bana, ancestral kore, possum feces, uncultivated greens, head payments, flute plug, flute food, flute myth, white pandanus, crying hole, matrilateral kinsmen, red pandanus fruit, clan forest, paternal kinsmen, marsupial meat, red cordyline, mythic father, second vagina, cannibal meal, maternal kinsmen, giant penis, worked sorcery, wild sugarcane, flute house Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Big Men, Torrent Lark, Bird of Paradise, Birds of Paradise, Melanesian Pidgin, New Guinea Highlands, Unavi Census Division, David Gillison, Women of Fore New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- New Guinea (The World's Wild Places) by Roy D. MacKay on 4 pages
- Nature, Culture and Gender by Carol MacCormack in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Gods Ghosts and Men in Melanesia by P. Lawrence in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Rituals of Manhood by Gilbert Herdt in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Gender and Kinship: Essays Toward a Unified Analysis by Jane Collier in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Organisations, Anxiety and Defence: Towards a Psychoanalytic Social Psychology (Whurr Series in Psychoanalysis) by Bob Hinshelwood in Back Matter
- Fluid Ontologies: Myth, Ritual, and Philosophy in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea by L. R. Goldman on page 29
- The Religions of Oceania (Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices) by Garry Trompf in Back Matter
- Senses of Place (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) by Steven Feld in Back Matter
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