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This historic book may have numerous typos missing text images or index Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book without typos from the publisher 1891 Not illustrated Excerpt CHAPTER XIX STORIES The native Stories or Folktales which follow are all of them with the exception of the first translated from the manuscripts written for me by natives of the various islands in which the stories are told The first example was written down by the Rev A Penny at Florida in the native language as he heard the story told The translation is as accurate and literal in each case as I could make it the detailed prolixity of a native narrative is very characteristic and it is possible that with the varying quality of the storytelling of the individual writers there may appear something also of the different narrative style of the eastern and western groups of these islands of Melanesia The value of truly native stories is beyond all question they exhibit native life in the particular details which come in the course of the narrative they are full of the conceptions which the native people entertain about the world around them they show the native mind active in fancy and imagination and they form a rich store of subjects for comparison with the folktales of other parts of the world To the question how far those who tell and those who hear these stories believe them to be true it is hard to give an answer To some extent they are believed and to a great extent they are treated as flights of fancy A storyteller warming to his subject and with all that he relates pictured in his mind very likely believes it all as he tells the tale a story will be quoted to explain or confirm some statement and would have little effect if not brought forth as true a story because it has always been told and heard is not open to much doubt or criticism But it may be safely said that to the natives a story is not a piece of histor
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pp xvii 3 409 bw illustrations charts sketch maps Must reading for serious investigators of sex and gender This documentation of several societies where homosexual relations among men are both universal and obligatory challenges a number of medical biological and psychological theories of homosexualitynbsp nbsp This book contains the work of seven
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The Tolai are among the most distinctive of Papua New Guineas indigenous peoples For all their success in the pursuit of modernity the Tolai remain traditional in their attitudes toward death the cultural elaboration of which colors almost every aspect of their existenceIn his new book A L Epstein develops an emotional profile of the Tolai contending that societies are distinguished as much by the shape of their emotional life as they are by their social arrangements and cultural styles Epstein describes a wide range of mourning ceremonies and other more and less public occasions By investigating not only the words that stand for emotions but also the way affect enters into and informs peoples conduct he charts a new course for ethnography that seeks to integrate the study of the emotions into anthropological analysis
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In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike The book treats with equal seriousnessand with equal good humorthe insights of Western social science feminist politics and ethnographic reporting in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life This makes The Gender of the Gift one of the most sustained critiques of crosscultural comparison that anthropology has seen and one of its most spirited vindications
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In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike The book treats with equal seriousnessand with equal good humorthe insights of Western social science feminist politics and ethnographic reporting in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life This makes The Gender of the Gift one of the most sustained critiques of crosscultural comparison that anthropology has seen and one of its most spirited vindications
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This book contains the work of seven leading anthropologists on the subject of ritualized homosexuality and it marks the first time that anthropologists have systematically studied crosscultural variations in homosexual behavior in a nonWestern culture area The book as a whole indicates that contemporary theories of sex and gender development need revision in light of the Melanesian findings
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Life in Lesu is a vivid account of life in the late StoneAge Melanesian society by the first anthropologist and first white person to live there Hortense Powdermaker author of the widely praised Stranger and Friend provides here both a mine of ethnological information and an absorbing personal view of daily life in a primitive communityDr Powdermaker lived for ten and a half months in Lesu as a close observer and participant in the events of the village She describes the individual and social life of the Lesu native from infancy to death how society and family are organized pregnancy and birth rites the care and instruction of children initiation ceremonies marriage and sexual life knowledge magic and religion Her tact inspired the confidence of the people and they invited her to all their ceremonies talked of their customs taboos and beliefs and shared with her their rituals and talesThis edition includes Dr Powdermakers essay Further Reflections on Lesu and Malinowskis Diary in which she assesses the influence her Lesu experience has on her later varied fieldwork and talks about the controversy over Malinowskis Diary in the light of her own association with him as a student
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