Mangrove Man - Dialogics of Culture in the Sepik Estuary

Klappentext This was the first modern ethnography of the Murik! a relatively large and important community settled on the Sepik River estuary in Papua New Guinea. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; Part I. Dialogics of the Maternal Schema and the Uterine Body: 2. A predicament in space; 3. The maternal schema and the uterine body; 4. The heraldic body; 5. Who succeeded Ginau?; Part II. Dialogics of the Maternal Schema and the Cosmic Body of Man: 6. A body more carnal; 7. The sexuality and aggression of the cosmic body; Part III. Dialogics of the Maternal Schema in Social Control: 8. Conflict and reproduction of society; 9. Social control and law.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David Lipset, David (University of Minnesota) Lipset
• Con la collaborazione di: Meyer Fortes (Editore), Edmund Leach (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 13.11.1997
• EAN: 9780521564359
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56435-9
• Pagine: 358
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Social &
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali