South coast New Guinea cultures : history, comparison, dialectic /
Knauft, Bruce M.
South coast New Guinea cultures : history, comparison, dialectic / Bruce M. Knauft. - Cambridge ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 1993. - xii, 298 p. : ill., map. forms. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 89 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-287) and index.
Part 1: Grounding; Theoretical and ethnographic context; Historical background and regional configuración--- Part 2: Critique; Sexuality in the regional analysis of south New Guinea; The analytic legacy of homosexual emphasis: language, subsistence and political economy; Women's status; Trends in comparative analysis--- Part 3: Reconfiguration; Theoretical reconfiguration; Marind- anim; Symbolic and sociopolitical permutations; Regional characteristics and comparisons.
0521418828 (hardback) 0521429315 (paperback)
92012472
Ethnology--New Guinea.
Melanesians--Sexual behavior.
Melanesians--Social life and customs.
New Guinea--Social life and customs.
306/.0995
South coast New Guinea cultures : history, comparison, dialectic / Bruce M. Knauft. - Cambridge ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 1993. - xii, 298 p. : ill., map. forms. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 89 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-287) and index.
Part 1: Grounding; Theoretical and ethnographic context; Historical background and regional configuración--- Part 2: Critique; Sexuality in the regional analysis of south New Guinea; The analytic legacy of homosexual emphasis: language, subsistence and political economy; Women's status; Trends in comparative analysis--- Part 3: Reconfiguration; Theoretical reconfiguration; Marind- anim; Symbolic and sociopolitical permutations; Regional characteristics and comparisons.
0521418828 (hardback) 0521429315 (paperback)
92012472
Ethnology--New Guinea.
Melanesians--Sexual behavior.
Melanesians--Social life and customs.
New Guinea--Social life and customs.
306/.0995