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The Making of Great Men - Male Domination and Power among the New Guinea Baruya (Paperback)
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The Making of Great Men - Male Domination and Power among the New Guinea Baruya (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
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The Baruya are a tribal society in highlands Papua New Guinea, with
whom Western contact was first made in 1951. During the last twenty
years, Maurice Godelier has spent many long periods of time living
among this people, and in this book he presents a detailed account
of their lives and their forms of social organization. The focus of
the book is on inequality and power in this classless society.
Godelier discusses both the power that certain men (the Great men)
have over others through their control of war, shamanism, hunting,
and rites of initiation, as well as the extraordinary power and
domination that men in general exert over women. He explores how
this domination is produced and maintained, examining it in
particular through a detailed study of male and female initiation.
He also analyzes the role that sexuality plays in Baruya thought
and theories, showing that in the Baruya view, every aspect of
domination - be it (in Western categorization) economic, political,
or symbolic - can be explained by sexuality, and the different role
of the sexes in human reproduction. A major contribution both to
the ethnography of Melanesia and to anthropological theory, the
book will interest scholars and students of anthropology, as well
as other readers interested in power and inequality, and in the
relationships between the sexes.
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