Landscapes of Relations and Belonging -- SERIES:Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Orthography -- Maps of Wogeo and the Coastof East Sepik Province -- Introduction -- Part I: Wogeo Island - Place and People -- Chapter 1 Life in Wogeo -- Chapter 2 The Legacy of Ian Hogbin andthe Wogeo Culture Heroes -- Part II Bodies, Taboos and Sociality -- Chapter 3 Differentiation and Connectedness:Blood, Flutes and Gender -- Chapter 4 Desired and Undesired Connections -- Chapter 5 Death and Disconnections -- Part III Landscape, Knowledge andLeadership -- Chapter 6 Sides, Pathways and Directions -- Chapter 7 Knowledge and Leadership -- Part IV Politics of Belonging -- Chapter 8 Kinship, Place and Belonging -- Chapter 9 Dab Village - its Land, Houses and People -- Conclusion -- References -- Glossary -- Index.

Wogeo Island is well-known to anthropologists of Papua New Guinea through the work of Ian Hogbin. Based on substantial fieldwork, the author builds on and expands previous research by showing how Wogeos establish and maintain social relationships and identities connected to place and movement in the physical landscape. This innovative study demonstrates how Wogeo worldviews and social organization can be described in relation to terms of movements, flows and placements in the landscape while, in turn, the landscape is constituted and made meaningful through people's activities and buildings. The author not only addresses some of the key issues in contemporary anthropology concerning place, gender, kinship, knowledge and power but also fills an important gap in Melanesian ethnography.

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