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Living kinship in the Pacific / edited by Christina Toren and Simonne Pauwels

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Author:
Toren, Christina 1947-  Search this
Pauwels, Simonne  Search this
Physical description:
viii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Type:
Case studies
Place:
Polynesia
Pacific Area
Date:
2015
Notes:
First paperback edition 2017.
ANTH copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Jayne H. Plank.
Contents:
Introduction: Kinship in the Pacific as knowledge that counts / Christina Toren and Simonne Pauwels -- 1. The mutual implication of kinship and chiefship in Fiji / Unaisi Nabobo-Baba -- 2. Pigs for money : kinship and the monetisation of exchange among the Truku / Ching-Hsiu Lin -- 3. Fijian kinship : exchange and migration / Jara Hulkenberg -- 4. Gendered sides and ritual moieties : Tokelau kinship as social practice / Ingjerd Hoem -- 5. Tongan kinship terminology and social stratification / Svenja Volkel -- 6. 'I suffered when my sister gave birth' : transformations of the brother/sister bond among the Ankave-Anga of Papua New Guinea / Pascale Bonnemère -- 7. The Vasu position and the sister's mana : the case of Lau, Fiji / Simonne Pauwels -- 8. 'Sister or wife?, you've got to choose': a solution to the puzzle of village exogamy in Samoa / Serge Tcherkézoff -- 9. The sister's return : the brother-sister relationship, the Tongan fahu and the unfolding of kinship in Polynesia / Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon -- 10. How would we have got here if our paternal grandmother had not existed? : relations of locality, blood, life and name in Nasau, Fiji / Françoise Cayrol -- 11. How ritual articulates kinship / Christina Toren
Topic:
Kinship  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1079041