Making of Great Men Male Domination and Power among the New Guinea Baruya

Name: Making of Great Men Male Domination and Power among the New Guinea Baruya
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ISBN: 9780521312127

ISBN-10: 0521312124

ISBN-13: 9780521312127

Edition: 1986

Authors: Maurice Godelier, Meyer Fortes, Jack Goody, Edmund Leach, Stanley Tambiah

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The Baruya are a tribal society in highlands Papua New Guinea, with whom Western contact was first made in 1951. During the last twenty years, Maurice Godelier has spent many long periods of time living among this people, and in this book he presents a detailed account of their lives and their forms of social organization. The focus of the book is on inequality and power in this classless society. Godelier discusses both the power that certain men (the Great men) have over others through their control of war, shamanism, hunting, and rites of initiation, as well as the extraordinary power and domination that men in general exert over women. He explores how this domination is produced and…

Book details

List price: $52.99
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/31/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.06" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Henry J. Steadman, Ph.D., Policy Research Associates, Delmar, NY.



Preface



Introduction to Baruya society



Social Hierarchies in Baruya Society



WomenG++s subordinate position



The institution and legitimization of male superiority: initiations and the separation of the sexes



The Production of Great Men: Powers Inherited, Power Merited



Male hierarchies



The discovery of great men



General view of Baruya social hierarchies



The nature of man/woman relations among the Baruya: violence and consent, resistance and repression



Great men societies, big men societies: two alternative logics of society



Recent Transformations of Baruya Society



The colonial order and independence


Conclusion



The ventriloquistG++s dummy


Bibliography


Index