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Children of the Blood - Society, Reproduction and Cosmology in New Guinea (Paperback)
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Children of the Blood - Society, Reproduction and Cosmology in New Guinea (Paperback)
Series: Explorations in Anthropology
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This fascinating book, translated from the French, explores the
Yafar society, a forest people living by shifting cultivation,
hunting and gathering. Based on fifteen years of research, it
offers a detailed examination of all aspects of a society whose
material and nutritional relations with their rainforest
environment are mediated by a sociocultural system based on a
carefully negotiated relationship with natural forces, and harmony
between the sexes. The author shows how these basic ideas can be
found in the ritualized and institutional aspects of the Yafar's
social life, as well as their mythology. Rich in detail and
insight, this book fully documents the Yafar's complex ritual
involving a symbolic exchange with the spirit world, a secret cult,
and curing rites presided over by hereditary religious officials.
The author's analysis of Yafar ideologies reveals that sexual
reproduction is the key to their society and the model for
continuity and regeneration prescribed by nature.
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