Full Description
Some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss Maurice Godelier's work. They explore and revisit some of the highly complex practices and structures social scientists encounter in their fieldwork. From the nature - culture debate to the fabrication of hereditary political systems, from transforming gender relations to the problems of the Christianization of indigenous peoples, these chapters demonstrate both the diversity of anthropological topics and the opportunity for constructive dialogue around shared methodological and theoretical models.
Contents
List of Tables and Figures Introduction Laurent Dousset and Serge Tcherkezoff Chapter 1. Some Things You Say, Some Things You Dissimulate, and Some Things You Keep To Yourself: Linguistic and Material Exchange in the Construction of Melanesian Societies Joel Robbins Chapter 2. The Enigma of Christian Conversion: Exchange and the Emergence of New Great Men among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea John Barker Chapter 3. Alienating the Inalienable: Marriage and Money in a Big-man Society Polly Wiessner Chapter 4. Anthropology and the Future of Sexuality Studies: An Essay in Honour of Maurice Godelier Gilbert Herdt Chapter 5. Material and Immaterial Relations: Gender, Rank and Christianity in Vanuatu Margaret Jolly Chapter 6. The Making of Chiefs: Hereditary Succession, Personal Agency and Exchange in North Mekeo Chiefdoms Mark S. Mosko Chapter 7. What is left out in Kinship Robert H. Barnes Chapter 8. Maurice Godelier and the Asiatic Mode Jack Goody Chapter 9. The Dialectic of Cosmopolitanization and Indigenization in the Contemporary World System: Contradictory Configurations of Class and Culture Jonathan Friedman Publications by Maurice Godelier Notes on the Contributors Index
