Foodways and Empathy : : Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea / / Anita von Poser.

Through the sharing of food, people feel entitled to inquire into one another’s lives and ponder one another’s states in relation to their foodways. This in-depth study focuses on the Bosmun of Daiden, a Ramu River people in an under-represented area in the ethnography of Papua New Guinea, uncoverin...

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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, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Annotations to the Text
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. The Ethnographic Frame
  • Chapter Two. The Sago Spirit’s Legacy and Bosmun Sociality
  • Chapter Three. Nzari’s Journey and the Enactment of Life-Cycle Events
  • Chapter Four. Ropor’s Belly and Emplaced Empathy
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Index