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Genre/Form: | Folklore Texts Textes |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gillian Gillison |
ISBN: | 0226293807 9780226293806 0226293815 9780226293813 |
OCLC Number: | 1151803992 |
Language Note: | Includes text in Gimi. |
Description: | xxi, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. The Argument among Myths. 2. The Gimi of Highland New Guinea -- pt. 1. Cannibalism and the Rites of Death. 3. Gimi Cannibalism in History and in Myth. 4. The Death of a Man in His Prime. 5. The Death of a Man, Part II: Women Convert the Man to Decorations -- pt. 2. Women's Work and the World They Hide. 6. "Songs Hold the Spirit": Garden Magic, Blood Songs, and the Nature of Women's Work. 7. Theories of Conception: Alternative Outcomes in an Intrauterine Scenario. 8. Rituals of Childhood Death and Birth: Men's First Exchanges Outside the Mother -- pt. 3. Marriage and Male Initiation. 9. The Myth of the Flutes and Principles of Exchange -- pt. 4. The World of Sorcery. 10. "Only Men Understand Sorcery" 11. The Rites of Cure. 12. Myth as Ultimate Reality -- Appendix: Kinship Terminology. 12. Glossary of Gimi Terms. |
Responsibility: | Gillian Gillison. |
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