They Make Themselves Work and Play among the Baining of Papua New Guinea

Name: They Make Themselves Work and Play among the Baining of Papua New Guinea
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ISBN: 9780226234434

ISBN-10: 0226234436

ISBN-13: 9780226234434

Edition: 1997

Authors: Jane Fajans

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For generations of anthropologists, the Baining people have presented a challenge, because of their apparent lack of cultural or social structure. This group of small-scale horticulturists seems devoid of the complex belief systems and social practices that characterize other traditional peoples of Papua New Guinea. Their daily existence is mundane and repetitive in the extreme, articulated by only the most elementary familial relationships and social connections. The routine of everyday life, however, is occasionally punctuated by stunningly beautiful festivals of masked dancers, which the Baining call play and to which they attribute no symbolic significance. In a new work sure to evoke…

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/4/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 0.68" wide x 0.92" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



The "Baining Problem"



The Ethnographic Setting



History



Kinship, Adoption, and the Production of Society



The Life Cycle and Socialization



Sentiments and Motivation in the Social Person



Death and Social Reproduction



Baining Dances



Ta Takmut Banas: The Asarai Dance



Atut



Anarchy as Structured Antistructure


Appendix


Glossary


Bibliography


Index