Living kinship in the Pacific
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Living kinship in the Pacific
（Pacific perspectives : studies of the European society for Oceanists / series editors, Christina Toren and Edvard Hviding, v. 4）
Berghahn, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Kinship in the Pacific as knowledge that counts / Christina Toren and Simonne Pauwels
- The mutual implication of kinship and chiefship in Fiji / Unaisi Nabobo-Baba
- Pigs for money : kinship and the monetisation of exchange among the Truku / Ching-Hsiu Lin
- Fijian kinship : exchange and migration / Jara Hulkenberg
- Gendered sides and ritual moieties : Tokelau kinship as social practice / Ingjerd Hoëm
- Tongan kinship terminology and social stratification / Svenja Völkel
- I suffered when my sister gave birth : transformations of the brother-sister bond among the Ankave-Anga of Papua New Guinea / Pascale Bonnemère
- The Vasu position and the sister's mana : the case of Lau, Fiji / Simonne Pauwels
- Sister or wife, you've got to choose : a solution to the puzzle of village exogamy in Samoa / Serge Tcherkézoff
- The sister's return : the brother-sister relationship, the Tongan fahu and the unfolding of kinship in Polynesia / Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon
- How would we have got here if our paternal grandmother had not existed? : relations of locality, blood, life and name in Nasau, Fiji / Françoise Cayrol
- How ritual articulates kinship / Christina Toren
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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
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Introduction: Kinship in the Pacific as Knowledge that Counts
Christina Toren and Simonne Pauwels
Chapter 1. The Mutual Implication of Kinship and Chiefship in Fiji
Unaisi Nabobo-Baba
Chapter 2. Pigs for Money: Kinship and the Monetisation of Exchange among the Truku
Ching-Hsiu Lin
Chapter 3. Fijian Kinship: Exchange and Migration
Jara Hulkenberg
Chapter 4. Gendered Sides and Ritual Moieties: Tokelau Kinship as Social Practice
Ingjerd Hoem
Chapter 5. Tongan Kinship Terminology and Social Stratification
Svenja Voelkel
Chapter 6. 'I suffered when my sister gave birth.' Transformations of the Brother-Sister Bond Among the Ankave-Anga of Papua New Guinea
Pascale Bonnemere
Chapter 7. The Vasu Position and the Sister's Mana. The Case of Lau (Fiji)
Simonne Pauwels
Chapter 8. Sister or Wife? You've Got to Choose. A Solution to the Puzzle of Village Exogamy in Samoa
Serge Tcherkezoff
Chapter 9. The Sister's Return. The Brother-Sister Relationship, the Tongan Fahu and the Unfolding of Kinship in Polynesia
Francoise Douaire-Marsaudon
Chapter 10. How Would We Have Got Here if our Paternal Grandmother Had Not Existed? Relations of Locality, Blood, Life and Name in Nasau (Fiji)
Francoise Cayrol
Chapter 11. How ritual articulates kinship
Christina Toren
Notes on Contributors
by "Nielsen BookData"