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The Dyirbal‐speaking people of North Queensland, Australia, have an unusual (and possibly unique) kinship system. Marriage takes place with someone not from ego's own generation but a generation above or below. A cross‐cousin through an elder‐sibling link at the parents' generation (i.e. mother's elder brother's child, father's elder sister's child) is a potential mother‐in‐law or father‐in‐law; ego may marry the child of such a relation. It follows from this that ego may also marry the child of a younger opposite‐sex sibling of a grandparent (e.g. mother's mother's younger brother's child). The system is quite symmetrical with regard to sex. Following exposition of the rules of the kinship system, the paper discusses how these are actually put into practice. Justification for the kin categories is also provided by linguistic observations on (i) dual forms of kin terms; (ii) the possible subjects of ‘verbs of begetting’; (iii) the kinship basis of the two first person dual pronouns; (iv) the rules for using the special deferential (or ‘mother

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02335.x

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02336.x

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This paper analyzes the rumor panics about kidnapping that have been reported by Western observers in Borneo for more than ninety years. This analysis, based on the study of rumor in social psychology, identifies this rumor panic phenomenon as a ‘diving rumor’ and relates it to the study of folklore. A diving rumor is one that repeatedly erupts and disappears over a long period of time. It is accounted for by the rumor sharing its dominant motif with a well‐known legend. The analysis of this Bornean kidnapping rumor panic yields a state government construction sacrifice motif. It is argued that the construction sacrifice is a widespread folklore motif and, as folklore, is related to the construction of an ideology of tribal‐state relations. In the context of the sociopolitical stress and cultural conflict marking these relations the rumor panics can be viewed as a sort of ideological warfare. The plausibility of this analysis is supported by an interpretation of the semantics of the rumor. The substantive contents of the rumor are shown to be not only conducive to the construction of an ideology of tribal‐state relations, but also, to be expressive of the principles and practices of traditional intertribal relations which were embodied in he

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02337.x

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In an earlier paper published in this journal Nancy Munn's ‘The Transformation of Subjects into Objects in Walbiri and Pitjantjatjara Myth’ was discussed and related to Aranda mythology. This paper commences where the earlier one finished and offers a psychological account of ‘the transformation of subjects into objects’. In particular, it discusses, within a psychoanalytic framework, the relationship between communication, the body and the environment inherent in Aranda myth and rite, suggesting that what Munn calls ‘thea priorigrounds’ of the Aboriginal moral order can be understood as a set of dialectical shifts occurring within the life‐cycle. These shifts involve the realisation and reconciliation of a number of oppositions, including male and female; earth and sky, death and life; conscious and unconscious; and, in particular, langua

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02338.x

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02339.x

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Highlanders and Foreigners in the Upper Ramu ‐ The Kainantu Area 1919–1942.By Robin Radford.Melbourne University Press. 1987. Pp.i–xix

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02340.x

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Palauan Cosmology: Dominance in a Traditional Micronesian Society.By Celio FerreiraGothenburg Studies in Social Anthropology, 11. Gothenburg, Sweden: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. 1987. Pp.312

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02341.x

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Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expression of Gender in a Melanesian Society.By Miriam KahnCambridge University Press. 1986. Pp. xx+ 187, figures, appendices, references, index. Price £20.0

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02342.x

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New Caledonia or Kanaky? The Political History of a French ColonyBy John ConnellPacific Research Monograph 16. Canberra: National Centre for Development Studies, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. 1987. Pp. xx + 493. 6 figures, 22 tables, 18 maps, appendices, bibliograph. ISSN 0155 9060, ISBN 07315 0512 3.

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02344.x

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The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) SocietyBy Nancy D. MunnCambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986. Pp. xviii + 331. Price A$ 92.50.

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1989.tb02345.x

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