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100 1 $aKnauft, Bruce M.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84230950
245 10 $aSouth coast New Guinea cultures :$bhistory, comparison, dialectic /$cBruce M. Knauft.
260 $aCambridge [England] ;$aNew York, NY, USA :$bCambridge University Press,$c1993.
300 $axii, 298 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aCambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ;$v89
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [252]-287) and index.
505 00 $gPt. 1.$tGrounding.$g1.$tTheoretical and ethnographic context.$g2.$tHistorical background and regional configuration --$gPt. 2.$tCritique.$g3.$tSexuality in the regional analysis of south New Guinea.$g4.$tThe analytic legacy of homosexual emphasis: language, subsistence, and political economy.$g5.$tWomen's status.$g6.$tTrends in comparative analysis --$gPt. 3.$tReconfiguration.$g7.$tTheoretical reconfiguration.$g8.$tMarind-anim.$g9.$tSymbolic and sociopolitical permutations.$g10.$tRegional characteristics and comparisons.$tAppendix: evidence concerning Asmat homosexuality.
520 $aThe communities of south coast New Guinea were the subject of classic ethnographies, and fresh studies in recent decades have put these rich and complex cultures at the center of anthropological debates. Flamboyant sexual practices such as ritual homosexuality have attracted particular interest. In the first general book on the region, Dr.
520 8 $aKnauft reaches striking new comparative conclusions through a careful ethnographic analysis of sexuality, the status of women, ritual and cosmology, political economy, and violence among the region's seven major language-culture areas. The findings suggest new Melanesian regional contrasts and provide for a general critique of the way regional comparisons are constructed in anthropology.
520 8 $aTheories of practice and political economy as well as postmodern insights are drawn upon to provide a generative theory of indigenous social and symbolic development.
650 0 $aEthnology$zNew Guinea.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045344
651 0 $aNew Guinea$xSocial life and customs.
650 0 $aMelanesians$xSexual behavior.
650 0 $aMelanesians$xSocial life and customs.
830 0 $aCambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ;$v89.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90613453
852 00 $bglx$hGN671.N5$iK64 1993