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Women as Unseen Characters - Male Ritual in Papua New Guinea (Hardcover, New): Pascale Bonnemere Women as Unseen Characters - Male Ritual in Papua New Guinea (Hardcover, New)
Pascale Bonnemere
R1,979 Discovery Miles 19 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Women as Unseen Characters Male Ritual in Papua New Guinea Edited by Pascale Bonnemere Rituals have always been a focus of ethnographies of Melanesia, providing a ground for important theorizing in anthropology. This is especially true of the male initiation rituals that until recently were held in Papua New Guinea. For the most part, these rituals have been understood as all-male institutions, intended to maintain and legitimate male domination. Women's exclusion from the forest space where men conducted most such rites has been taken as a sign of their exclusion from the entire ritual process. "Women as Unseen Characters" is the first book to examine the role of females in Papua New Guinea male rituals, and the first systematic treatment of this issue for any part of the world. In this volume, leading Melanesian scholars build on recent ethnographies that show how female kin had roles in male rituals that had previously gone unseen. Female seclusion and the enforcement of taboos were crucial elements of the ritual process: forms of presence in their own right. Contributors here provide detailed accounts of the different kinds of female presence in various Papua New Guinea male rituals. When these are restored to the picture, the rituals can no longer be interpreted merely as an institution for reproducing male domination but must also be understood as a moment when the whole system of relations binding a male person to his kin is reorganized. By dealing with the participation of women, a totally neglected dimension of male rituals is added to our understanding. Pascale Bonnemere is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Social Anthropology in Oceania 2004 264 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8122-3789-4 Cloth $69.95s 45.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-0137-6 Ebook $69.95s 45.50 World Rights Anthropology, Women's/Gender Studies

Acting for Others - Relational Transformations in Papua New Guinea (Paperback): Pascale Bonnemere, Nora Scott Acting for Others - Relational Transformations in Papua New Guinea (Paperback)
Pascale Bonnemere, Nora Scott
R893 Discovery Miles 8 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For the Ankave of Papua New Guinea, men, unlike women, do not reach adulthood and become fathers simply by growing up and reproducing. What fathers and by extension, men actually are is a result of a series of relational transformations, operated in and by rituals in which men and women both perform complementary actions in separate spaces. Acting for Others is a tour de force in Melanesian ethnography, gender studies, and theories of ritual. Based on years of fieldwork conducted by the author and her husband and co-ethnographer, this book's "double view" of the Ankave ritual cycle from women in the village and from the men in the forest is novel, provocative, and one of the most incisive analyses of the emergence of ideas of gender in Papua New Guinea since Marilyn Strathern's The Gender of the Gift. At the heart of Pascale Bonnem re's argument is the idea that it is possible for genders to act for and upon one another, and to do so almost paradoxically, by limiting action through the obeying of taboos and other restrictions. With this first English translation by acclaimed French translator Nora Scott, accompanied by a foreword from Marilyn Strathern, Acting for Others brings the Ankave ritual world to new theoretical life, challenging how we think about mutual action, mutual being, and mutual life.

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