Bodies and persons : comparative perspectives from Africa and Melanesia
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| Format: | Ouvrage |
| Language: | Anglais |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Embodying sociality: Africanist-Melanesianist comparisons / Strathern, Andrew and Lambek, Michael
- "It's a boy", "it's a girl!" reflections on sex and gender in Madagascar and beyond / Astuti, Rita
- Modernity and forms of personhood in Melanesia / Lipuma, Edward
- Refiguring the person: the dynamics of affects and symbols in an African spirit possession cult / Corin, Ellen
- Body and mind in mind, body and mind in body: some anthropological interventions in a long conversation / Lambek, Michael
- Treating the affect by remodelling the bidy in a Yaka healing cult / Devisch, René
- To eat for another: taboo and the elicitation of bodily form among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea / Bamford, Sandra
- Electric vampires: Haya rumors of the commodified body / Weiss, Brad
- Creative possessions: spirit mediumship and millennial economy among Gebusi of Papua New Guinea / Knauft, Bruce M.
- Dis-embodiment and concealment among the Atbalmin of Papua New Guinea / Bercovitch, Eytan
- Melpa and Nuer ideas of life and death: the rebirth of a comparison / Strathern, Andrew and Stewart, Pamela J.
- Afterword: embodying ethnography / Boddy, Janice.