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Masculinity, motherhood, and mockery : psychoanalyzing culture and the Iatmul Naven rite in New Guinea / Eric Kline Silverman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2001.Description: xiii, 243 p. : ill., map 24 cmISBN:
  • 0472067575 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 21 306.0899912 S587
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: The Grotesque and the Moral 1 -- PART 1: COSMIC MASCULINITY -- 2 Food and Floods 15 -- 3 Cosmic Bodies and Mythic Genders 27 -- 4 Human Bodies 47 -- 5 The Architectural Grotesque 64 -- PART 2: SOCIAL MASCULINITY -- 6 A Symbolic Forest of Kin 83 -- 7 Oedipus in the Sepik 1oo -- 8 The Shame of Masculinity 116 -- PART 3: RITUAL MASCULINITY -- 9 Men and the Maternal Dialogics of Naven 133 -- 10 Conclusion: Naven and the Pathos of Masculinity 159 -- Epilogue: Masculinity beyond the Sepik 174 -- Notes 179 -- References 203 -- Index 233.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-232) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: The Grotesque and the Moral 1 -- PART 1: COSMIC MASCULINITY -- 2 Food and Floods 15 -- 3 Cosmic Bodies and Mythic Genders 27 -- 4 Human Bodies 47 -- 5 The Architectural Grotesque 64 -- PART 2: SOCIAL MASCULINITY -- 6 A Symbolic Forest of Kin 83 -- 7 Oedipus in the Sepik 1oo -- 8 The Shame of Masculinity 116 -- PART 3: RITUAL MASCULINITY -- 9 Men and the Maternal Dialogics of Naven 133 -- 10 Conclusion: Naven and the Pathos of Masculinity 159 -- Epilogue: Masculinity beyond the Sepik 174 -- Notes 179 -- References 203 -- Index 233.

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