Children of the Blood
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ethnographic fieldwork
Forest Spirits
Founding Clan
Garden Group
Gnetum Gnemon
indigenous belief systems
kinship structures
Melanesian gender relations
menstrual blood
Patrilineal Units
rainforest anthropology
Red Ochre
Ritual Masters
ritual symbolism
Sago Palm
sexual reproduction
shifting cultivation
Social Reproduction
sociocultural system
Sororal Polygyny
Special Door
symbolic exchange in New Guinea
Uterine Nephew
Vice Versa
Violated
Yafar society
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781859731611
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This fascinating book, translated from the French, explores the Yafar society, a forest people living by shifting cultivation, hunting and gathering. Based on fifteen years of research, it offers a detailed examination of all aspects of a society whose material and nutritional relations with their rainforest environment are mediated by a sociocultural system based on a carefully negotiated relationship with natural forces, and harmony between the sexes. The author shows how these basic ideas can be found in the ritualized and institutional aspects of the Yafar's social life, as well as their mythology. Rich in detail and insight, this book fully documents the Yafar's complex ritual involving a symbolic exchange with the spirit world, a secret cult, and curing rites presided over by hereditary religious officials. The author's analysis of Yafar ideologies reveals that sexual reproduction is the key to their society and the model for continuity and regeneration prescribed by nature.
Bernard Juillerat Research Director,C.N.R.S., Paris Translated from the French by Nora Scott
