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Humors and Substances: Ideas of the Body in New Guinea

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This book considers in depth the emergent theme of concerns over bodily fluids in health and wellness through an examination of a rich set of ethnographic materials from the Pacific islands of New Guinea. The particular structure of the book draws together otherwise disparate observations made by ethnographers on ideas of the body. It helps to reveal how these are related to ideas of sickness and curing, of witchcraft, of cannibalism, of gender relations, and of ecology and ritual. It facilitates cross-cultural comparisons with other parts of the world, as well as making clear the fundamental similarities between the societies of Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea. It also discusses the idea of the cosmos and its centrality to ideological representations of the physical and social body. Society is seen to be part of the cosmos, and the human body directly linked to, and in cyclical flow with, the elements of the life-world in general, and society in particular.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction: Gathering the Threads of the Flow of Life by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern The Scent of Sweat: Notions of Witchcraft and Morality in Inanwatan (South Coastal Bird's Head of Irian Jaya, Indonesia) by Dianne Van Oosterhout The Manes Kaya Healing Rite: Blood, Sago, and Sacred Cloths for the Ancestors (Irian Jaya, Indonesia) by Ien Courtens A Comparative Discussion of Witchcraft and Healing Rituals by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern Substance Transfer: Conception, Growth, and Nurturance in Highlands Papua New Guinea by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern The Wöp Cult: Water Power by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern Mind Substance by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern Conclusions: Mediating Opposites by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern Index

About the Author :
PAMELA J. STEWART is Research Associate, Department of Anthropology at University of Pittsburgh./e ANDREW STRATHERN is A. W. Mellon Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh./e

Review :
?[t]his a welcome contribution to the exsisting anthropological works concerned with the body and the person in New Guinea in general; in addition, it provides new ethnographical information on the Hagen, Pangia, and Duna.?-Int. Review of Anthropology and Linguistics ?This clearly written work is very important. After an eighty-year lapse, anthropologists are systematically addressing cultural constructs of conception, ontogeny, foetal growth, and inheritance in relation to perceived social and physical environments. This book is a model for approaching this nexus clearly, comparatively, and transparently.?-Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania "Ýt¨his a welcome contribution to the exsisting anthropological works concerned with the body and the person in New Guinea in general; in addition, it provides new ethnographical information on the Hagen, Pangia, and Duna."-Int. Review of Anthropology and Linguistics "This clearly written work is very important. After an eighty-year lapse, anthropologists are systematically addressing cultural constructs of conception, ontogeny, foetal growth, and inheritance in relation to perceived social and physical environments. This book is a model for approaching this nexus clearly, comparatively, and transparently."-Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania "[t]his a welcome contribution to the exsisting anthropological works concerned with the body and the person in New Guinea in general; in addition, it provides new ethnographical information on the Hagen, Pangia, and Duna."-Int. Review of Anthropology and Linguistics


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780897897624
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 176
  • Weight: 454 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0897897625
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Ideas of the Body in New Guinea
  • Width: 156 mm


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