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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (324 p.)
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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