Bodies and persons : comparative perspectives from Africa and Melanesia

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Other Authors : Lambek Michael Joshua (Éditeur scientifique), Strathern Andrew (Éditeur scientifique)
Format : Book
Language : anglais
Title statement : Bodies and persons : comparative perspectives from Africa and Melanesia / edited by Michael Lambek and Andrew Strathern
Published : Cambridge (U.K.), New York : Cambridge University Press , cop. 1998
Physical Description : 1 vol. (xiii-298 p.)
Content : pt. 1. Transcending dichotomies: "It's a boy," "it's a girl!": reflections on sex and gender in Madagascar and beyond / Rita Astuti. Modernity and forms of personhood in Melanesia / Edward Lipuma. Refiguring the person: the dynamics of affects and symbols in an African spirit possession cult / Ellen Corin. Body and mind in mind, body and mind in body: some anthropological interventions in a long conversation / Michael Lambek. pt. 2. Transitions, containments, decontainments: Treating the affect by remodelling the body in a Yaka healing cult / René Devisch. To eat for another: taboo and the elicitation of bodily form among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea / Sandra Bamford. Electric vampires: Haya rumors of the commodified body / Brad Weiss. pt. 3. From exchange to history: Creative possessions: spirit mediumship and millennial economy among Gebusi of Papua New Guinea / Bruce M. Knauft. Dis-embodiment and concealment among the Atbalmin of Papua New Guinea / Eytan Bercovitch. Melpa and Nuer ideas of life and death: the rebirth of a comparison / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart. Afterword: embodying ethnography / Janice Boddy
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