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Informationen zum Autor Christina Toren is Professor of Anthropology and founding Director of the Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of St Andrews. Her works include Mind, Materiality and History (1999) and The Challenge of Epistemology (co-edited with João de Pina-Cabral, 2012). Simonne Pauwels is a Researcher at CNRS and the adjunct Director of CREDO. Before working in Fiji, she conducted research in Eastern Indonesia for many years and, besides a number of articles, has written Metanleru, un voilier prédateur: Renommée et fertilité dans l'île de Selaru (2009) and D'un nom à l'autre en Asie du Sud-Est, Approches ethnologiques (co-edited with Josiane Massard-Vincent, 1999). Klappentext Provides strong accounts of contemporary understandings of kinship in the Pacific. The ethnographic focus is on transformation and continuity over time. Describes how kinship is constituted in day-to-day ritual and ritualized behavior. Zusammenfassung Focusing on transformation and continuity over time in Fiji! Tonga! and Samoa! among others! contributors assert that kinship is a lived and living dimension of contemporary human lives. The ethnographic case studies add to the understanding of kinship as-according to Unaisi Nabobo-Baba-"knowledge that counts." Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Introduction: Kinship in the Pacific as Knowledge that Counts Christina Toren and Simonne Pauwels Chapter 1. The Mutual Implication of Kinship and Chiefship in Fiji Unaisi Nabobo-Baba Chapter 2. Pigs for Money: Kinship and the Monetisation of Exchange among the Truku Ching-Hsiu Lin Chapter 3. Fijian Kinship: Exchange and Migration Jara Hulkenberg Chapter 4. Gendered Sides and Ritual Moieties: Tokelau Kinship as Social Practice Ingjerd Hoëm Chapter 5. Tongan Kinship Terminology and Social Stratification Svenja Völkel Chapter 6. 'I suffered when my sister gave birth.' Transformations of the Brother-Sister Bond Among the Ankave-Anga of Papua New Guinea Pascale Bonnemère Chapter 7. The Vasu Position and the Sister's Mana. The Case of Lau (Fiji) Simonne Pauwels Chapter 8. Sister or Wife? You've Got to Choose. A Solution to the Puzzle of Village Exogamy in Samoa Serge Tcherkézoff Chapter 9. The Sister's Return. The Brother-Sister Relationship, the Tongan Fahu and the Unfolding of Kinship in Polynesia Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon Chapter 10. How Would We Have Got Here if our Paternal Grandmother Had Not Existed? Relations of Locality, Blood, Life and Name in Nasau (Fiji) Françoise Cayrol Chapter 11. How ritual articulates kinship Christina Toren Notes on Contributors ...
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Christina Toren is Professor of Anthropology and founding Director of the Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of St Andrews. Her works include Mind, Materiality and History (1999) and The Challenge of Epistemology (co-edited with João de Pina-Cabral, 2012).
Simonne Pauwels is a Researcher at CNRS and the adjunct Director of CREDO. Before working in Fiji, she conducted research in Eastern Indonesia for many years and, besides a number of articles, has written Metanleru, un voilier prédateur: Renommée et fertilité dans l'île de Selaru (2009) and D'un nom à l'autre en Asie du Sud-Est, Approches ethnologiques (co-edited with Josiane Massard-Vincent, 1999).
