Schneider, Katharina.
Saltwater Sociality : A Melanesian Island Ethnography. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (262 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- A Note on Languages -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. Fishing People -- 2. Kin on the Move -- 3. Mobile Places -- 4. Pinaposa -- 5. Marriage and Mortuary Rites -- 6. Movements and Kastom -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Bibliography -- Index.
The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of 'saltwater people' in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movements, they take their cues about the current state of social relations. Based on detailed ethnography, this study engages current Melanesian anthropological theory and argues that movements are the Pororans' predominant mode of objectifying relations. Movements on Pororan Island are to its inhabitants what roads are to 'mainlanders' on the nearby larger island, and what material objects and images are to others elsewhere in Melanesia.
9780857453020
Bougainville Island Region (Papua New Guinea) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements.
Bougainville Island Region (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs.
Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Bougainville Island Region.
Matrilineal kinship -- Papua New Guinea -- Bougainville Island Region.
Sex role -- Papua New Guinea -- Bougainville Island Region.
Electronic books.
GN671.N5S33 2012
306.099592
Saltwater Sociality : A Melanesian Island Ethnography. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (262 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- A Note on Languages -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. Fishing People -- 2. Kin on the Move -- 3. Mobile Places -- 4. Pinaposa -- 5. Marriage and Mortuary Rites -- 6. Movements and Kastom -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Bibliography -- Index.
The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of 'saltwater people' in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movements, they take their cues about the current state of social relations. Based on detailed ethnography, this study engages current Melanesian anthropological theory and argues that movements are the Pororans' predominant mode of objectifying relations. Movements on Pororan Island are to its inhabitants what roads are to 'mainlanders' on the nearby larger island, and what material objects and images are to others elsewhere in Melanesia.
9780857453020
Bougainville Island Region (Papua New Guinea) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements.
Bougainville Island Region (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs.
Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Bougainville Island Region.
Matrilineal kinship -- Papua New Guinea -- Bougainville Island Region.
Sex role -- Papua New Guinea -- Bougainville Island Region.
Electronic books.
GN671.N5S33 2012
306.099592