Making of Great Men

Name: Making of Great Men
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Male Domination and Power among the New Guinea Baruya

Autor: Maurice GodelierRupert Swyer

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The Baruya are a tribal society in highlands Papua New Guinea, with whom Western contact was first m...

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Autor

Maurice GodelierRupert Swyer

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1986

Pagini

284

EAN

9780521312127

ISBN

0521312124

Enbook ID

02027366

Editura

Cambridge University Press

Greutate

444

Dimensiuni

154 x 230 x 21

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The Baruya are a tribal society in highlands Papua New Guinea, with whom Western contact was first made in 1951. During the last twenty years, Maurice Godelier has spent many long periods of time living among this people, and in this book he presents a detailed account of their lives and their forms of social organization. The focus of the book is on inequality and power in this classless society. Godelier discusses both the power that certain men (the Great men) have over others through their control of war, shamanism, hunting, and rites of initiation, as well as the extraordinary power and domination that men in general exert over women. He explores how this domination is produced and maintained, examining it in particular through a detailed study of male and female initiation. He also analyzes the role that sexuality plays in Baruya thought and theories, showing that in the Baruya view, every aspect of domination - be it (in Western categorization) economic, political, or symbolic - can be explained by sexuality, and the different role of the sexes in human reproduction. A major contribution both to the ethnography of Melanesia and to anthropological theory, the book will interest scholars and students of anthropology, as well as other readers interested in power and inequality, and in the relationships between the sexes.

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