Saltwater Sociality : : A Melanesian Island Ethnography /

Saltwater Sociality : : A Melanesian Island Ethnography / / Katharina Schneider.

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The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of ‘saltwater people’ in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movements, t...

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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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Schneider, Katharina,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (260 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • TABLES
  • A NOTE ON LANGUAGES
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • Maps
  • INTRODUCTION Pororan and Buka, 2004
  • CHAPTER 1 Fishing People
  • CHAPTER 2 Kin on the Move
  • CHAPTER 3 Mobile Places
  • Image section
  • CHAPTER 4 Pinaposa
  • CHAPTER 5 Marriage and Mortuary Rites
  • CHAPTER 6 Movements and Kastom
  • Conclusion
  • GLOSSARY Hapororan and Tok Pisin Terms
  • APPENDIX A Pororan Travel Routes, 2004–05
  • APPENDIX B Some Fishing Terms
  • APPENDIX C Tok Pisin and Hapororan Kin Terms
  • APPENDIX D Stories and Solomon
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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