| Author/Contributor(s): | Rohatynskyj, Marta |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Date: | 10/14/2022 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare and inexplicable practice in Papua New Guinean ethnography at the time the original data was collected some forty years ago. Marta Rohatynskyj undertakes a shift in her analytical concepts of kinship studies to reveal the deep-seated disjuncture between female and male that this practice represents. The author argues that this practice is associated with a totemic/animistic ontology and has currency in a particular type of Melanesian society.