The heart of the pearl shell : the mythological dimension of Foi sociality / James F. Weiner
1988, 1st edition. Berkeley : University of California Press. Fine title-blocked cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #396595
ISBN: 0520061322
Physical description; (xviii, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. Notes; Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Australian National University). Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The Ethnographic Setting -- The Responsibility of Males -- Oil, Shells, and Meat: The Media of Foi Sociality -- The Solicitude of Affines -- Metaphor and Substitution -- Obviation and Myth -- Intersexual Mediation -- Female Reproductivity -- The Anxiety of Affines -- Complementarity, Exchange, and Reciprocity -- The Hidden Myth. Subjects; Foi (Papua New Guinean people). Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - Oceania. History & Archaeology. Mythology, Papuan. Indigenous Peoples. Social Life. Social Customs. Papua New Guinea : society.
Price: €40.00