Dobu : : Ethics of Exchange on a Massim Island, Papua New Guinea / / Susanne Kuehling.
This is an ethnography of Dobu, a Massim society of Papua New Guinea, which has been renowned in social anthropology since Reo Fortune's Sorcerers of Dobu (1932). Focusing on exchange and its underlying ethics, this book explores the concept of the person in the Dobu world view. The book examin...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- MAP OF SOUTH-EAST NEW GUINEA
- MAPS OF DOBU ISLAND
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- 1 WHAT IS A ‘DOBUAN’?
- 2 THE DOBU CONCEPT OF THE PERSON
- 3 PATHS AND PATTERNS OF EVERYDAY EXCHANGES
- 4 ‘BIG GIFTS’ AND THE CLAIM TO FAME
- 5 THE GIFT THAT KILLS – WITCHCRAFT AND SORCERY
- 6 GIFTS OF CASH FOR GOD AND GOODS
- 7 STRATEGIC FRIENDSHIPS AND PRECIOUS MEMORIES: THE DOBU WAY OF KULA
- 8 THE PRICE OF LOVE: MORTUARY FEASTING AND PATERNAL DUTY
- EPILOGUE
- APPENDIX 1: Words for ‘inner’ states
- APPENDIX 2: List of Affinal exchanges
- APPENDIX 3: Glossary Notes
- BIBLIOGRAPHY