The power of perspective : social ontology and agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu /
Rio, Knut Mikjel.
New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-254) and index.
Introduction -- Kinship and sand drawing -- The totalising third party -- The spirals of marriage -- Of yams and men -- The intentionality of ceremonial agency -- Displaying life after death -- The phenomenology of Ambrym exchange -- Conclusions: Denying the gift.
Ethnology
Kinship
Rites and ceremonies
Ceremonial exchange