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Saltwater Sociality

A Melanesian Island Ethnography
1. Aufl.

von: Katharina Schneider
38,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	01.02.2012
ISBN/EAN:	9780857453020
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	260

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Titelbeschreibung

The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of ‘saltwater people’ in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movements, they take their cues about the current state of social relations. Based on detailed ethnography, this study engages current Melanesian anthropological theory and argues that movements are the Pororans’ predominant mode of objectifying relations. Movements on Pororan Island are to its inhabitants what roads are to ‘mainlanders’ on the nearby larger island, and what material objects and images are to others elsewhere in Melanesia.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables A note on languages Preface Acknowledgements
 Introduction
<ul>
<li> Pororan and Buka, 2004</li>
<li> Movements: an ethnographic focus</li>
<li> Studying movements: some methods</li>
<li> Movements as objectification</li>
</ul>
 Chapter 1. Fishing people
<ul>
<li> Anywhere, anytime, anybody</li>
<li> Gardening and fishing</li>
<li> Fishing methods</li>
<li> Going around: opening up space and time</li>
<li> Return from the sea</li>
<li> Sia and Hulu</li>
</ul>
 Chapter 2. Kin on the move
<ul>
<li> Watching, discussing and eliciting movements</li>
<li> Mothers and children</li>
<li> Pinaposa gatherings</li>
<li> Fathers, or ‘making grow’</li>
<li> The ninja</li>
<li> Matrilineal kinship: a view from Pororan</li>
</ul>
 Chapter 3. Mobile places
<ul>
<li> Buka history: an overview</li>
<li> Ancestral settlement</li>
<li> Colonial gathering</li>
<li> Present-day ‘pulling’</li>
<li> Leitana and the little thing</li>
<li> Stones</li>
</ul>
 Chapter 4. Pinaposa
<ul>
<li> Matrilineages ‘by the hair’</li>
<li> Pinaposa relations across Buka</li>
<li> The Pororans on ancestral roads</li>
<li> Orchestrating movements, and going around in the bush</li>
<li> Migration stories</li>
<li> Hatsunon</li>
<li> Conclusion</li>
</ul>
 Chapter 5. Marriage and mortuary rites
<ul>
<li> Sinahan</li>
<li> Tightening a relation</li>
<li> Mortuary rites</li>
<li> Persons at death</li>
<li> Objects of forgetting</li>
<li> Bung malot: the end of mourning</li>
<li> Hahur: ‘a mark of being human’</li>
<li> Finishing mourning on the mainland</li>
</ul>
 Chapter 6. Movements and kastom
<ul>
<li> ‘Writing down the clans’</li>
<li> ‘Straightening traditional leadership’</li>
<li> ‘Straightening the ground’</li>
<li> A Pororan kastom event</li>
</ul>
 Conclusion
<ul>
<li> The argument</li>
<li> Pororan, Melanesia</li>
<li> Pororan, at sea</li>
</ul>
 Glossary: Hapororan and Tok Pisin terms
 Appendix A: Pororan travel routes, 2004-05 Appendix B. Some fishing terms Appendix C: Melanesian Pidgin and Hapororan kin terms Appendix D: Stories and Solomon
 Bibliography Index

Autorenportrait

Katharina Schneider is Lecturer at the Institute for Ethnology at Heidelberg University. She obtained her PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge.