ISBN:
1912808226
,
9781912808229
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxvii, 473 pages)
,
illustrations, map
Series Statement:
The Malinowski monographs
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mosko, Mark S., 1948- Ways of Baloma
DDC:
305.8009954/1
Keywords:
Ethnology
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
Ethnology
;
Manners and customs
;
Ethnologie ; Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée ; Trobriand (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée ; îles)
;
Esprits ; Trobriand (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée ; îles)
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs
;
Papua New Guinea ; Trobriand Islands
Abstract:
"Bronislaw Malinowski's path-breaking research in the Trobriand Islands shaped much of modern anthropology's disciplinary paradigm. Yet many conundrums remain. For example, Malinowski asserted that baloma spirits of the dead were responsible for procreation but had limited influence on their living descendants in magic and other matters, claims largely unchallenged by subsequent field investigators, until now. Based on extended fieldwork at Omarakana village--home of the Tabalu "Paramount Chief"--Mark S. Mosko argues instead that these and virtually all contexts of indigenous sociality are conceived as sacrificial reciprocities between the mirror worlds that baloma and humans inhabit."--Publisher's description
Abstract:
Introduction: on magical images, powers, and persons -- Theoretical orientations: partibility and participation -- The magical powers of baloma -- Baloma creations and procreations -- Bwekasa: the life-giving sacrificial rites of Trobriander, living and deceased -- Cycles of reproduction and reincarnation as Bwekasa sacrifice -- Taboos, totems, and Tuma -- The supreme puzzle: Suvasova incest, rank, marriage alliance, and chiefly endogamy -- Conclusion: analogy, homology, and changing ways of baloma.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-454) and indexes
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