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020 $a9781577666011
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050 4 $aDU740.42$b.S55 2009
100 1 $aSillitoe, Paul,$d1949-
245 10 $aGrass-clearing man :$ba factional ethnography of life in the New Guinea Highlands /$cPaul Sillitoe, Jackie Sillitoe.
260 $aLong Grove, Ill. :$bWaveland Press,$cc2009.
300 $avii, 200 p. :$bill., 1 map ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-200).
505 0 $aA Birth and a Death -- Growing Up and Ensuring Health -- Courting, Incest, and Sickness -- Revenge and Armed Conflict -- Marriage, In-Laws, and Sex -- Everyday Life, Subsistence, and Famine -- Some Ghostly Encounters and Perils of Polygamy -- Making It Big, Poison, and Sorcery -- Rituals of Well-Being -- Encounters with New Cults -- New Exchanges in a Changing World -- The Stateless Order.
520 1 $a"This accessible ethnography is a factional account that depicts life in a stateless society of the New Guinea Highlands during the twentieth century. It explores a series of related events from the viewpoint of a fictional character, "Ongol," who lived his life in the Was valley. Although Ongol and the other characters whose lives enrich this narrative are fictional, the ethnography is factual; the exchange transactions and rituals did happen, the spells are genuine and recorded as recited, the customs surrounding marriage and kinship are practiced, and the subsistence regime exists. This creative yet factual ethnographic life history inspires students to grasp and retain core anthropological concepts associated with the people, practices, and events among the Wola living in the New Guinea Highlands."--ORIGINAL BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aPapua New Guinea$xSocial life and customs.
651 0 $aPapua New Guinea$xCivilization$y20th century.
650 0 $aWola (Papua New Guinean people)
650 0 $aEthnology$zPapua New Guinea.
700 1 $aSillitoe, Jackie.
730 0 $aAnthropology online.$5net
988 $a20090410
906 $0OCLC