Creative land
Subtitle: place and procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea
By: James Leach.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Nekgini (Papua New Guinea people) -- Kinship.; Nekgini (Papua New Guinea people) -- Economic conditions.; Human ecology -- Papua New Guinea -- Madang Province.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Maps, Figures, Tables, and Photographs ix; title: Acknowledgements xi; title: Notes on the Text xv; title: Preface xvii; title: Introduction 1; title: The Rai Coast 1; title: Chapter 1: Process and Kinship 21; title: Kinship, Process, and Creativity 22; title: Cognation and Flexibility 26; title: An Alternative to the Genealogical Model 29; title: The Palem 31; title: Chapter 2: Residence History and Palem 33; title: Hamlets Past and Present 33; title: Hamlets as Social Groups 41; title: The Labours of Lawrence 49; title: Complexity 52; title: Chapter 3: Marrying Sisters 57; title: Defining Relationships 57; title: Myths and Explanations 75; title: Chapter 4: Gardens, Land, and Growth 91; title: Origin Points 92; title: Gendered Productivity: The Tambaran 93; title: Households and Gardens 100; title: Gardening, not 'Production' 101; title: Gardens, Land, and Substance 114; title: Male Continuity, Female Movement 118; title: Chapter 5: Birth, Emergence, and Exchange 127; title: The Transactions Between Affinal Kin Focused on Children 128; title: Mother's Brothers in the Anthropological Literature 143; title: Affinal Payments and Lineality in Reite 145; title: Visibility and Recognition 151; title: Chapter 6: Spirit, Flesh, and Bone 159; title: The Palem as a Body 159; title: Performing Places. People and Spirits as Land Made Mobile 177; title: Chapter 7: Places and Bodies, Landscape and Perception 193; title: The Concept of Landscape in Anthropology 196; title: Hearing and Vision as Sensory Modalities 201; title: Landscape in the Nekgini Lifeworld 206; title: Chapter 8: Creative Land 211; title: Land, Place, and Person 211; title: Simple Principles, Complex Process 215; title: Creativity 216; title: Glossary 219; title: References 221; title: Index 229.