Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology
|
Buy Now
She Speaks Her Anger: Myths and Conversations of Gimi Women - A Psychological Ethnography in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Loot Price: R3,178
Discovery Miles 31 780
|
|
She Speaks Her Anger: Myths and Conversations of Gimi Women - A Psychological Ethnography in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Culture, Mind, and Society
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Taking a novel approach that adapts Freud's theory of the Primal
Crime, this book examines a wealth of ethnographic data on the Gimi
of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, focusing on women's
lives, myths, and rituals. Women's and men's separate myths and
rites may be 'read' as a cycle of blame about which sex caused the
ills of human existence and is still at fault. However, the author
demonstrates that in public rites of exchange in which both sexes
participate, men appropriate and subvert women's usages as a ritual
strategy to 'undo' motherhood and confiscate children at puberty.
In doing so, she reveals how Gimi women both rebel against the
male-dominated social order and express understanding of why they
also acquiesce. The result of decades of fieldwork, writing and
reflection, this book offers an analysis of Gimi women's complex
understanding of their situation and presents a nuanced picture of
women in a society dominated by men. It represents an important
contribution to New Guinea ethnography that will appeal to students
and scholars of psychoanalysis, gender studies, and cultural,
social and psychoanalytic anthropology.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.