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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      13 November 1997
      ISBN:
      9781139166867
      9780521564342
      9780521564359
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139166867
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.685kg, 358 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.58kg, 358 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (106)
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    Subjects:
    Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (106)
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    This book is the first modern ethnography of the Murik, a relatively large and important community settled on the Sepik River estuary in Papua New Guinea, and the only book of a non-Western culture drawing on the conceptual framework of the Russian literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin. Murik men, who exercise political power, conceptualize women as the source of nurture, generosity and love. This conceptualization creates for men a kind of existential problem, and their claim to sustain and reproduce society requires them to appropriate the nurturant qualities of women. So they must, in some sense, model certain aspects of themselves after women. A 'maternal schema' or 'poetics of the female body', therefore underlines the sociocultural patterns of these societies. This schema expresses itself in a range of societal domains: in kinship relations, life-cycle rituals, the men's cults, and in disputes and processes of conflict resolution. The issues discussed tie in with some of the major contemporary debates in the social sciences: the relationship between ideas of male and female power.

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    ‘Mangrove man is a powerful and compelling addition to the theoretical repertoire which has been brought to bear on Melanesian gender, ritual and politics.’

    Source: Canberra Anthropology

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