The Mask of War: Violence, Ritual, and the Self in Melanesia |
Contents
List of figures vii | 1 |
The peace in the Melanesian feud | 10 |
Violence and the individual | 21 |
Community against clanship | 29 |
the Iatmul of Japandai | 50 |
patterns of enmity and alliance | 63 |
War and the mens cult | 75 |
The ethnopsychology of war magic | 95 |
Melanesian aesthetics | 120 |
War and ritual hierarchy | 126 |
Violence and the symbolic construction of polity | 146 |
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Abelam actual affines aggression Ambunti Amoku apawul Asiti attack Avatip Avatip men basic behaviour bespelled Bowden called cannibalism canoe ceremonial Chambri clansmen conceived conceptions conflict cult-house cultural dangerous descent groups endogamy enemies entity exchange existence feud fight fighters forest gift-exchange Guinea Highlands Hallpike headhunting Hobbes homicide hostile human identity individual initiatory instance intermarriage Japandai Kaunga killed kinship Kumbwiman Kwoma lagoons Lapanggai Lowland magic and ritual male cult male initiation Malu Manambu Marilyn Strathern marriage mawul Melanesian societies men's cult middle Sepik moral neighbours Ngginyap normative nowadays Numbundu Nyaule outsiders Papua New Guinea particular peace person pigs reciprocity relations ritual sago Sahlins Sawos sense Sepik River simbuks simply slit-drum social distance social relationships someone sorcery spear Spirit spirit-beings Strathern structure subclans symbolic Tauade Timbunke totemic totemic clans trade traditional tribal society victims village's violence war-magic warfare Western Iatmul women yams Yuanamb