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Creative Land - Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea (Paperback, New edition)
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Creative Land - Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea (Paperback, New edition)
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"The ethnography is full of interesting observations and novel
information, and repays a close reading with a vivid sense of the
distinctiveness of Reite social life, intensely local but
reminiscent of a much wider field of peoples in the Southwest
Pacific, including the Highlands of New Guinea . . . Creative Land
is itself 'creative' and will attain its own 'place' in the
historical 'landscape' of studies of kinship in New Guinea and
elsewhere." . Contemporary Pacific "The ethnography itself is full
of interesting observations and novel information, and repays a
close reading with a vivid sense of the distinctiveness of Reite
social life . . . Creative Land is itself 'creative' and will
attain its own 'place' in the historical 'landscape' of studies of
kinship in New Guinea and elsewhere. . The Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute What is creative in kinship? How are
people connected to places? James Leach answers these questions
through formulating "creativity" as an integral part of kinship on
the north coast of Papua New Guinea. The book contains a new
critique of the genealogical model of kinship, suggesting that this
model prevents us from grasping the way generative relations,
including those to land and place, constitute persons on the Rai
Coast. Analytic attention is focused upon the life cycle, marriage,
exchange and artistic production as the activities in which
substantial connection is generated. The argument, made in relation
to detailed ethnography, yields a fresh perspective on the
connections people trace to each other. James Leach is Research
Fellow in Anthropology, King's College, Cambridge, and Affiliated
Lecturer in the Dept. of Social Anthropology at the University of
Cambridge. ?Awarded the Royal Anthropological Institute JB Donne
Prize in the Anthropology of Art for 1999, and The Philip
Leverhulme Prize in 2004.
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