Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures, tables, and maps
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: the problem and the people
- 2 Between village and bush
- 3 Body and cosmos
- 4 Sex, procreation, and menstruation
- 5 Male and female
- 6 Kin, clan, and connubium
- 7 Feasts of death (i): de-conception and re-conception
- 8 Feasts of death (ii): the sons of Akaisa
- 9 Tikopia and the Trobriands
- 10 Conclusions: indigenous categories, cultural wholes, and historical process
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures, tables, and maps
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: the problem and the people
- 2 Between village and bush
- 3 Body and cosmos
- 4 Sex, procreation, and menstruation
- 5 Male and female
- 6 Kin, clan, and connubium
- 7 Feasts of death (i): de-conception and re-conception
- 8 Feasts of death (ii): the sons of Akaisa
- 9 Tikopia and the Trobriands
- 10 Conclusions: indigenous categories, cultural wholes, and historical process
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- Quadripartite StructuresCategories, Relations and Homologies in Bush Mekeo Culture, pp. 271 - 277Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985