Social reproduction and history in Melanesia : mortuary ritual, gift exchange, and custom in the Tanga Islands
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Social reproduction and history in Melanesia : mortuary ritual, gift exchange, and custom in the Tanga Islands
（Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology, 96）
Cambridge University Press, 1995
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Chicago, 1988
Bibliography: p. 272-283
Includes index
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内容説明
In much of Melanesia, the process of social reproduction unfolds as a lengthy sequence of mortuary rites - feast making and gift giving through which the living publicly define their social relations with each other while at the same time commemorating the deceased. In this study Robert J. Foster constructs an ethnographic account of mortuary rites in the Tanga Islands, Papua New Guinea, placing these large-scale feasts and ceremonial exchanges in their historical context and demonstrating how the effects of participation in an expanding cash economy have allowed Tangans to conceive of the rites as 'customary' in opposition to the new and foreign practices of 'business'. His examination synthesizes two divergent trends in Melanesian anthropology by emphasizing both the radical differences between Melanesian and Western forms of sociality and the conjunction of Melanesian and Western societies brought about by colonialism and capitalism.
目次
- 1. Introduction: history, alterity, and a new (Melanesian) anthropology
- 2. Commoditization and the emergence of kastam
- 3. Kastam, bisnis and matriliny
- 4. Finishing the dead: an outline of Tangan mortuary feasts and exchanges
- 5. Replacing the dead: identical exchange and lineage succession
- 6. Performing lineage succession: feast giving and value-creation
- 7. Performing lineage succession: transformative exchange and the power of mortuary rites
- 8. Conclusion.
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