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| Titel: |
The Construction of Continuity in Lesu: The Historical Anthropology of a New Ireland Society |
| Auteur: |
Aijmer, Goran |
| Verschenen in: |
History and anthropology |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 17 (2006) nr. 3 pagina's 229-243 |
| Jaar: |
2006-09-01 |
| Inhoud: |
This study examines features of social organization originally encountered in New Ireland in 1929-30 by the anthropologist Hortense Powdermaker. It aims to depict important aspects of social life before these were transformed by colonial and missionary influences. Kinship and marriage are discussed as topoi in discourses of continuity. It is suggested that in a social landscape of demographic limitations and widespread violence, social morphology was generated through categorical distinctions providing symbolic order in a dense texture of factual kinship, an order imposed to counteract the ever-present shadow of incest. The social grammar prescribed a primary uterinely defined demarcation of belonging. As a parallel counterpoint, there was also an agnatically inspired alternative cultural modality. In this other possible world, the main distinction was that between men and women, uterine belonging being irrelevant. |
| Uitgever: |
Routledge |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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