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Mangrove Man : Dialogics of Culture in the Sepik Estuary (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Mangrove Man Dialogics of Culture in the Sepik Estuary - Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Author: David Lipset
The Murik of Papua New Guinea conceptualize women as the source of nurture, generosity and love. Men have political power, but their claim to sustain and reproduce society requires them to appropriate the nurturant qualities of women. So they must, in some sense, model certain aspects of themselves after women. A "maternal schema" or "poetics" ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521564359
ISBN-10: 0521564352
Publication Date: 11/13/1997
Pages: 357
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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