Landscapes of Relations and Belonging : : Body, Place and Politics in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea / / Astrid Anderson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Anderson, Astrid,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)

Wogeo Island is well-known to anthropologists of Papua New Guinea through the work of Ian Hogbin. Based on substantial fieldwork, the author builds on and expands previous research by showing how Wogeos establish and maintain social relationships and identities connected to place and movement in the physical landscape. This innovative study demonstrates how Wogeo worldviews and social organization can be described in relation to terms of movements, flows and placements in the landscape while, in turn, the landscape is constituted and made meaningful through people’s activities and buildings. The author not only addresses some of the key issues in contemporary anthropology concerning place, gender, kinship, knowledge and power but also fills an important gap in Melanesian ethnography.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Orthography -- Maps of Wogeo and the Coast of East Sepik Province -- Introduction -- Part I: Wogeo Island – Place and People -- Prelude -- Chapter 1: Life in Wogeo -- Chapter 2: The Legacy of Ian Hogbin and the Wogeo Culture Heroes -- Part II: Bodies, Taboos and Sociality -- Prelude -- Chapter 3: Differentiation and Connectedness: Blood, Flutes and Gender -- Chapter 4: Desired and Undesired Connections -- Chapter 5: Death and Disconnections -- Part III: Landscape, Knowledge and Leadership -- Prelude -- Chapter 6: Sides, Pathways and Directions -- Chapter 7: Knowledge and Leadership -- Part IV: Politics of Belonging -- Prelude -- Chapter 8: Kinship, Place and Belonging -- Chapter 9: Dab Village – its Land, Houses and People -- Conclusion -- References -- Glossary -- Index