Omie Sex Affiliation
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Author_Marta Rohatynskyj
bad power
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changing worlds
descent theory
domestic domain
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equistatutory opposition
feminism
first contact
gender
hierarchy
human emergence
kinship
labor recruitment
life stages
magic
male arrogance
male control
male domination
male identity
male mystical agency
Melanisia
monogenetic theory of reproduction
myth
ontology
Orokaiva
Papua New Guinea
patriarchy
plant emblems
reincarnation
reproduction
ritual
sacred sites
spirits
totemic animals
totemism
transformation
warfare
yams
Product details
- ISBN 9781800736603
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Oct 2022
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare and inexplicable practice in Papua New Guinean ethnography at the time the original data was collected some forty years ago. Marta Rohatynskyj undertakes a shift in her analytical concepts of kinship studies to reveal the deep-seated disjuncture between female and male that this practice represents. The author argues that this practice is associated with a totemic/animistic ontology and has currency in a particular type of Melanesian society.
Marta Rohatynskyj taught for over twenty years in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and published on the topics of gender and development both in the Papua New Guinean setting as well as elsewhere. Her publications include the co-edited volume with Sjoerd Jaarsma Ethnographic Artifacts: Challenges to a Reflexive Anthropology (University of Hawaii Press, 2000).
