Children of Blood: Society, Reproduction and Cosmology in New Guinea - Couverture rigide

Juillerat, Bernard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1859731619 ISBN 13 : 9781859731611

Editeur : Berg Publishers, 1997

Synopsis

This fascinating book, translated from the French, explores the Yafar society, a forest people living by shifting cultivation, hunting and gathering. Based on fifteen years of research, it offers a detailed examination of all aspects of a society whose material and nutritional relations with their rainforest environment are mediated by a sociocultural system based on a carefully negotiated relationship with natural forces, and harmony between the sexes. The author shows how these basic ideas can be found in the ritualized and institutional aspects of the Yafar's social life, as well as their mythology. Rich in detail and insight, this book fully documents the Yafar's complex ritual involving a symbolic exchange with the spirit world, a secret cult, and curing rites presided over by hereditary religious officials. The author's analysis of Yafar ideologies reveals that sexual reproduction is the key to their society and the model for continuity and regeneration prescribed by nature.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bernard Juillerat is Research Director, at C.N.R.S., Paris.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berg Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1859731619
• ISBN 13: 9781859731611
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 632
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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