Magical Body
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areca
Areca Nut
Author_Richard Eves
Avoidance Relationship
body
Cash Crop
Category=JBCC
Category=JHM
Colonial Administration
colonial encounter studies
corporeal symbolism
Cross Sex
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ethnographic fieldwork
feasts
garden
Garden Magic
Garden Magicians
Heirloom Valuables
identity and modernity in Papua New Guinea
indigenous cosmology
Kinship Etiquette
love
Magic
magician
MeA
Melanesian anthropology
Moiety Exogamy
mortuary
Mortuary Ceremonies
Mortuary Feasts
nut
Regenerative Stalks
ritual kinship systems
Sea Water
shell
Shell Valuables
Social Reproduction
Successful Feast
Sun Magic
Taro Plant
Taro Tubers
valuables
weather
Weather Magician
Woman's Clan
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9789057023057
- Weight: 760g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Oct 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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An intriguing exploration of the role and significance of the body in the world of a Pacific Islands People, the Lelet of New Ireland (Papua New Guinea). In vivid ethnographic detail, the monograph captures the fluidity and complexity of Lelet conceptions of corporeality and their significance to identity as they encounter the influences of modernity, in the form of colonialism, Christianity and cash-cropping. The author examines the importance of the body to constructions of identity and difference, and its role in the constitution of place and space. The book provides a richly detailed ethnographic study of magical belief and the body whilst paying particular attention to the polyvalent meanings of bodily images and metaphors as they are used in numerous contexts of magic.
