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Despite almost a century of contact with Europeans, the Bush Mekeo people of Papua New Guinea are still essentially unknown to the anthropological world. This book was the first detailed, comprehensive study of Bush Mekeo culture and society. Using a rigourous structuralist approach to interpret in a consistent and systematic way the principal meanings and social practices of this South Seas way of life, Mark Mosko provides a convincing portrayal of Bush Mekeo culture and society as a unified, coherent and logical 'whole'. The main force of the book is to explore empirically the logic by which Bush Mekeo symbols are connected. Beginning with native symbolic constructions of space and time, Professor Mosko carefully unfolds the associated beliefs and practices pertaining to the body, to the relations between genders, to the system of social organisation and to the dramatic and resplendent Bush Mekeo mortuary ceremonial.
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Despite almost a century of contact with Europeans, the Bush Mekeo people of Papua New Guinea are still essentially unknown to the anthropological world. This book was the first detailed, comprehensive study of Bush Mekeo culture and society. The main force of the book is to explore empirically the logic by which Bush Mekeo symbols are connected.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0521264529
- ISBN 13 9780521264525
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages304
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Quadripartite structures : categories, relations, and homologies in Bush Mekeo culture / Mark S. Mosko
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xiii, 298 pages. Notes; Bibliography: p278-288. - Includes index. Contents; Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures, tables, and maps; Preface; 1 Introduction: the problem and the people; Quadripartite structures in anthropological perspective; The Bush Mekeo; 2 Between village and bush; Village and bush -- outside and inside; The daily cycle and ordinary village/bush transfers; Inverted outside and everted inside; Extraordinary village/bush transfers; Aboveground versus belowground; 3 Body and cosmos; The clean, the dirty, and the human; Village resources: sweet/unsweet; Food and water transformations. Nonfood transformations: work and nonworkFood digestion, blood synthesis, and dirt; Health, illness, and curing; Body homologies; 4 Sex, procreation, and menstruation; Sexuality in the ordinary and extraordinary spheres; Sexuality and bodily transformations; Procreation versus menstruation; Women must not menstruate; The story of Amaka; 5 Male and female; The ritual cycle of the female; The ritual cycle of the male; Gender differentiation and areca nut chewing; Female inversion/eversion of male; The myth of Foikale; The story of afinama; 6 Kin, clan, and connubium. Relationships of blood and nonbloodBlood relatives or kin; Affines (ipa ngaua); Moiety, clan, and lineage; Clans, residence, and working together; The oral history of Nganga clan; Clanship and women's children; An alternate sibling term -- ekefaka; The rules of marriage; Marriage rule I: cognatic proscription; Marriage rule II: agnatic proscription; Marriage rule III: papie ngaunga proscription; Marriage rule IV: kofuapie prescription; Marriage rule V: sister exchange; Marriage in alternating generations; Marriage compensation; Homologies of the system. 7 Feasts of death (i): de-conception andre-conceptionThe agents and methods of bodily death; The aftermath of death: village hot and village cold; The final death feast: village cold and village hot; Feast foods, bloods, relations, and de-conception; Happiness, conception, de-conception, and re-conception; Feasting homologies; 8 Feasts of death (ii): the sons of Akaisa; Ikufuka meat and the blood of Akaisa Men; Akaisa myth 1: inauguration of hereditary offi; Akaisa myth 2: Akaisa and Tsabini; Ikufuka meat; The mythical Akaisa; 9 Tikopia and the Trobriands; Tikopia; The Trobriands. 10 Conclusions: indigenous categories, cultural wholes, and historical processAppendixes; Appendix 1 Village resources derived from bush resources; Appendix 2 Ingestion and ingestibles; Appendix 3 Categories of food; Appendix 4 Work and nonwork skills; Work skills; Nonwork skills; Appendix 5 Categories of human dirt; Appendix 6 The myth of Foikale and Oa Lope; Version Fi*; Version Fii*; Version Fiii*; Appendix 7 The afinama myth; Version Ai*; Version Aii*; Version Aiii*; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 424575
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Mark S. Mosko is Professor, Department of Anthropology, School of Culture, History & Language, Emeritus Professor, Australia National University. For approximately 40 years (1974-2015), his research was concentrated on the ethnography of (Austronesian) North Mekeo peoples of the Central Province of Papua New Guinea. The Mekeo are an indigenous people who are known to have inhabited only this region. Their contact with the outside world began in the 1840s and was accelerated by the arrival of French Catholic missionaries beginning in 1875. Most of the Mekeo were converted to Christianity, but their initial population of 20-30,000 was devastated by diseases introduced by the outsiders. The massive deaths led to an escalation of traditional sorcery for which the Mekeo are still renowned. Mosko's publications have focused on traditional and changing patterns of social organization, religion and cosmology, myth, personhood, gender, chieftainship, commoditization, land tenure, and Christian conversion. This scholarly anthropological work was first published in 1985. Available copies are generally reprints from the period 2008-2009. A copy from 1985 is very rare. Octavo. Black cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Slight bumping to spine ends. Light browning to end pages. Else is pristine. Black dust jacket with yellow title to front and spine panels. Slight creasing to spine ends of dust jacket. Index, 298 pages. South Pacific. SOUPAC/051111. Seller Inventory # 24864
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xiii, 298 pages. Notes; Bibliography: p278-288. - Includes index. Contents; Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures, tables, and maps; Preface; 1 Introduction: the problem and the people; Quadripartite structures in anthropological perspective; The Bush Mekeo; 2 Between village and bush; Village and bush -- outside and inside; The daily cycle and ordinary village/bush transfers; Inverted outside and everted inside; Extraordinary village/bush transfers; Aboveground versus belowground; 3 Body and cosmos; The clean, the dirty, and the human; Village resources: sweet/unsweet; Food and water transformations. Nonfood transformations: work and nonworkFood digestion, blood synthesis, and dirt; Health, illness, and curing; Body homologies; 4 Sex, procreation, and menstruation; Sexuality in the ordinary and extraordinary spheres; Sexuality and bodily transformations; Procreation versus menstruation; Women must not menstruate; The story of Amaka; 5 Male and female; The ritual cycle of the female; The ritual cycle of the male; Gender differentiation and areca nut chewing; Female inversion/eversion of male; The myth of Foikale; The story of afinama; 6 Kin, clan, and connubium. Relationships of blood and nonbloodBlood relatives or kin; Affines (ipa ngaua); Moiety, clan, and lineage; Clans, residence, and working together; The oral history of Nganga clan; Clanship and women's children; An alternate sibling term -- ekefaka; The rules of marriage; Marriage rule I: cognatic proscription; Marriage rule II: agnatic proscription; Marriage rule III: papie ngaunga proscription; Marriage rule IV: kofuapie prescription; Marriage rule V: sister exchange; Marriage in alternating generations; Marriage compensation; Homologies of the system. 7 Feasts of death (i): de-conception andre-conceptionThe agents and methods of bodily death; The aftermath of death: village hot and village cold; The final death feast: village cold and village hot; Feast foods, bloods, relations, and de-conception; Happiness, conception, de-conception, and re-conception; Feasting homologies; 8 Feasts of death (ii): the sons of Akaisa; Ikufuka meat and the blood of Akaisa Men; Akaisa myth 1: inauguration of hereditary offi; Akaisa myth 2: Akaisa and Tsabini; Ikufuka meat; The mythical Akaisa; 9 Tikopia and the Trobriands; Tikopia; The Trobriands. 10 Conclusions: indigenous categories, cultural wholes, and historical processAppendixes; Appendix 1 Village resources derived from bush resources; Appendix 2 Ingestion and ingestibles; Appendix 3 Categories of food; Appendix 4 Work and nonwork skills; Work skills; Nonwork skills; Appendix 5 Categories of human dirt; Appendix 6 The myth of Foikale and Oa Lope; Version Fi*; Version Fii*; Version Fiii*; Appendix 7 The afinama myth; Version Ai*; Version Aii*; Version Aiii*; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 424575
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