ISBN:
978-1-912808-22-9
,
978-0-9973675-6-0 /Pbk.
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (516 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
The _Malinowski Monographs Series
Keywords:
Papua-Neuguinea Trobriand Insel
;
Trobriander
;
Brauch
;
Ritual und Zeremonie
;
Tod
;
Geist
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. Informed by a synthesis of Strathern's model of "dividual personhood" and Levy-Bruhl's theory of "participation," Mosko upends a century of discussion and debate extending from Malinowski to anthropology's other leading thinkers. His account of the intimate interdependencies of humans and spirits in the cosmic generation and coordination of "life" (momova) and "death" (kaliga) strikes at the nexus of anthropology's received wisdom, and Ways of Baloma will inevitably lead practitioners and students to reflect anew on the discipline's multifold theories of personhood, ritual agency, and sociality. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Matter -- Foreword by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: Introduction: On magical images, powers, and persons -- Chapter Two: Theoretical orientations: Partibility and participation -- Chapter Three: The magical powers of baloma -- Chapter Four: Baloma creations and procreations -- Chapter Five: Bwekasa: The life-giving sacrificial rites of Trobriander, living and deceased -- Chapter Six: Cycles of reproduction and reincarnation as bwekasa sacrifice -- Chapter Seven: Taboos, totems, and Tuma -- Chapter Eight: The supreme puzzle: Suvasova incest, rank, marriage alliance, and chiefly endogamy -- Chapter Nine: Conclusion: Analogy, homology, and changing ways of baloma -- GlossaryReferences
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [427]-454
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