Naven
Subtitle: a survey of the problems suggested by a composite picture of the culture of a New Guinea tribe drawn from three points of view.
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1958
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Iatmul (Papua New Guinea people); Naven (Iatmul rite); Rites and ceremonies -- New Guinea; Ethnology -- New Guinea
Notes: Bibliography: p. 302-303. Bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: Methods of presentation -- The naven ceremonies. Occasions on which naven are performed -- Materials upon which the description is based -- Description of the ceremonies -- The concepts of structure and function. Structure -- Function -- The cultural premises relevant to the Wau-lala relationship. Discrimination between wau and father -- Identification between father and son -- The child’s relationship to the maternal clan -- Cultural premises etc. (cont.). Summary of the first three premises -- Identification between brother and sister -- Identification of wife and husband -- Sorcery and vengeance -- Structural analysis of the Wau-lala relationship. The wau as a “mother” -- The wau as a “wife’s brother” -- Other details of the wau’s behavior -- The sociology of naven. The integration of Iatmul communities -- Peripheral and centripetal systems -- The sociology of naven (cont.). Contrasting types of fission -- The problems and methods of approach. Problems -- Zeitgeist and configuration -- Psychological theories and ethology -- Examples of ethos in English culture -- The ethos of Iatmul culture : the men. The ceremonial house -- The ethos of Iatmul culture etc. (cont.). Initiation -- Headhunting -- The ethos of Iatmul culture : the women -- Attitudes toward death -- The preferred types -- Ethological contrast, competition and schismogenesis. Heredity and environment -- Conditioning factors which maintain sex contrast -- Schismogenesis -- Schismogenesis in other contexts -- Schismogenesis in Iatmul culture -- Schismogenesis in other contexts -- The progress of schismogenesis -- The control of schismogenesis -- The expression of ethos in naven. Sex ethos and naven -- Kinship motivation and naven -- The eidos of Iatmul culture. The problem of Iatmul complexity -- Intellectual activation in Iatmul culture -- The eidos of Iatmul culture. (cont.). The pervasive nature of eidos -- Iatmul paradoxes -- Other patterns of Iatmul thought -- Scientific and native ways of thought -- Other types of psychological standardization -- Epilogue -- Epilogue.