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The association of men and women with birds, as expressed in dance, is a common theme in Melanesian ritual. Often, this is seen as a means by which humans attain some relation with a transcendental reality. But this is only part of the picture. Pigs, in contrast to birds, represent an opposite sort of reality. It is argued here — by an interpretation of thegab— that through such rituals, men and women symbolically situate themselves between the two. The rituals are performed to overcome the precarious nature of human sexuality, appearance and aging associated with the life‐cycle process, which contrast with that of both birds and

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DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1987.tb00736.x

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年代:1987

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ISSN:0025-2328    

DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1987.tb00737.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

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Drawing on ethnographic material about a set of Nepalese cultural practices known as ‘nutabad —ciypabad’, ‘favouritism’, the paper attempts; first, to chart the meaning favouritism has for Nepalis in their everyday encounters with central administration and the forms these interactions take and their cultural significations; second, to examine the way the idea of favouritism is constructed by the Westernized intellectuals to mean corruption and their reasons for so doing. The key sociological concept utilized for this analysis is ‘power’, specifically its operation in the field of political ethics centring on a conflict between two opposing ideologies; one advocated by the Westernized intellectuals who are pressing for the adoption of the principle of ‘impartiality’ in government; the other being that which is inherent in the Hindu traditional mode of statecraft wherein the institution of ‘the favour’ and therefore ‘partiality’ as a value is paramount and is in accord with Hindu c

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DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1987.tb00738.x

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年代:1987

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DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1987.tb00739.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

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Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self; Sentiment, Place, and Politics Among Western Desert Aborigines. By Fred R. Myers. Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington and Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1986. Pp. 7+334; black and white diagrams. $32.95 (hard cover). ISBN 0–85575–171–1 hard cover — AIAS); ISBN 0–87474–690–0 (hard cover

ISSN:0025-2328    

DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1987.tb00740.x

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年代:1987

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Book Note

ISSN:0025-2328    

DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1987.tb00741.x

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年代:1987

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Book reviewed in this article:Purposive Behaviour and Teleological Explanations. Edited by F. George and LFoundations of Kinship Mathematics. By Pin‐Hsiung LiuInfanticide: Comparative and evolutionary perspective. Edited by Glen Housfater and Sarah Blaffer‐HrdySelf, Sex and Gender in Cross‐Cultural Fieldwork. Edited by T.L. Whitehead and M.E. ConawayThe Constitution of Society. By Anthony GiddensThe Anthropology of Medicine: From Culture to Method. By Lola Romanucci‐Ross, Daniel E. Moerman, Laurence R. TancrediAdvocacy and Anthropology: First Encounters. Edited by R. PaineNative Power: The Quest for Autonomy and Nationhood of Indigenous Peoples. Edited by J. Brosted, J. Dahl, A. Gray, H. Gullor, G. Henriksen, J. Jorgensen, and I. KleivanGender and Power in Rural Greece. By J. DubischAustralian Ways: Anthropological Studies of an Industrial Society. Edited by Lenore MandersonOpencut. The Working Class in an Australian mining town. By Claire WilliamsThe Flying Phoenix: Aspects of Chinese Sectarianism. By David K. Jordan and Daniel L.Relativism and the Social Sciences. By Ernest Gellner. Published by Cambridge University PressOn Anthropological Knowledge. Three Essays. By Dan Sperber.Un ethnologue dans le mitro. By Marc AugeHandbook of Australian Languages Volume 3. Edited by R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J

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DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1987.tb00742.x

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年代:1987

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