Bibliographic Details
| 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 |
| Subjects : |
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Nantilus
