Living Kinship in the Pacific / / ed. by Christina Toren, Simonne Pauwels.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Bonnemère, Pascale,; Cayrol, Françoise,; Douaire-Marsaudon, Françoise,; Hoëm, Ingjerd,; Hulkenberg, Jara,; Lin, Ching-Hsiu,; Nabobo-Baba, Unaisi,; Pauwels, Simonne,; Tcherkézoff, Serge,; Toren, Christina,; Völkel, Svenja,
• HerausgeberIn: Pauwels, Simonne,; Toren, Christina,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (274 p.)

Unaisi Nabobo-Baba observed that for the various peoples of the Pacific, kinship is generally understood as “knowledge that counts.” It is with this observation that this volume begins, and it continues with a straightforward objective to provide case studies of Pacific kinship. In doing so, contributors share an understanding of kinship as a lived and living dimension of contemporary human lives, in an area where deep historical links provide for close and useful comparison. The ethnographic focus is on transformation and continuity over time in Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa with the addition of three instructive cases from Tokelau, Papua New Guinea, and Taiwan. The book ends with an account of how kinship is constituted in day-to-day ritual and ritualized behavior.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction. Kinship in the Pacific as Knowledge that Counts -- 1 The Mutual Implication of Kinship and Chiefship in Fiji -- 2 Pigs for Money Kinship and the Monetization of Exchange among the Truku -- 3 Fijian Kinship Exchange and Migration -- 4 Gendered Sides and Ritual Moieties Tokelau Kinship as Social Practice -- 5 Tongan Kinship Terminology and Social Stratification -- 6 ‘I Suffered When My Sister Gave Birth’ Transformations of the Brother–Sister Bond among the Ankave-Anga of Papua New Guinea -- 7 The Vasu Position and the Sister’s Mana The Case of Lau, Fiji -- 8 ‘Sister or Wife, You’ve Got to Choose’ A Solution to the Puzzle of Village Exogamy in Samoa -- 9 The Sister’s Return The Brother–Sister Relationship, the Tongan Fahu and the Unfolding of Kinship in Polynesia -- 10 How Would We Have Got Here if Our Paternal Grandmother Had Not Existed? Relations of Locality, Blood, Life and Name in Nasau, Fiji -- 11 How Ritual Articulates Kinship -- Notes on Contributors -- Index