Masculinity, motherhood, and mockery
Subtitle: psychoanalyzing culture and the Iatmul Naven rite in New Guinea
By: Eric Kline Silverman.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Naven (Iatmul rite) -- Papua New Guinea -- Tambanum.; Iatmul (Papua New Guinea people) -- Rites and ceremonies.; Iatmul (Papua New Guinea people) -- Kinship.; Iatmul (Papua New Guinea people) -- Psychology.; Women, Iatmul -- Social conditions.; Masculinity -- Papua New Guinea -- Tambanum.; Motherhood -- Papua New Guinea -- Tambanum.; Patrilineal kinship -- Papua New Guinea -- Tambanum.; Ceremonial exchange -- Papua New Guinea -- Tambanum.; Tambanum (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: The Grotesque and the Moral 1; title: PART 1: COSMIC MASCULINITY; title: 2 Food and Floods 15; title: 3 Cosmic Bodies and Mythic Genders 27; title: 4 Human Bodies 47; title: 5 The Architectural Grotesque 64; title: PART 2: SOCIAL MASCULINITY; title: 6 A Symbolic Forest of Kin 83; title: 7 Oedipus in the Sepik 1oo; title: 8 The Shame of Masculinity 116; title: PART 3: RITUAL MASCULINITY; title: 9 Men and the Maternal Dialogics of Naven 133; title: 10 Conclusion: Naven and the Pathos of Masculinity 159; title: Epilogue: Masculinity beyond the Sepik 174; title: Notes 179; title: References 203; title: Index 233.