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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 December 2009
      25 March 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511621741
      9780521418829
      9780521429313
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511621741
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.597kg, 316 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.458kg, 316 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (89)
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    Subjects:
    Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (89)
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    The communities of south coast New Guinea were the subject of classic ethnographies, and fresh studies in recent decades have put these rich and complex cultures at the centre of anthropological debates. Flamboyant sexual practices, such as ritual homosexuality, have attracted particular interest. In the first general book on the region, Dr Knauft reaches striking new comparative conclusions through a careful ethnographic analysis of sexuality, the status of women, ritual and cosmology, political economy, and violence among the region's seven major language-culture areas. The findings suggest new Melanesian regional contrasts and provide for a general critique of the way regional comparisons are constructed in anthropology. Theories of practice and political economy as well as post-modern insights are drawn upon to provide a generative theory of indigenous social and symbolic development.

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    "In the 1990s, a comparative ethnography of a region extending some 2,500 kilometers must be either very old-fashioned or postmodern. This work has the virtues of both....The result is a stimulating and useful book." Choice

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