Mortuary Feasting on New Ireland

The Activation of Matriliny Among the Sursurunga

Alexander H. Bolyanatz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2000
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-89789-721-1 (ISBN)

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Contrary to conventional anthropological understanding, descent groups need not always be wealth- or office-transmitting groups, but can be principally feast-sponsoring groups. Sursurunga matrilineages are activated by individual's combined participation in feasting events, but individual's reasons for participating in feasts vary and often have little to do with matrilineal group membership.

This study of Sursurunga mortuary feasting shows that the analysis of groups-in this case, matrilineal descent groups-is best conducted by attention to the reasons that the individuals who comprise those groups act as they do. The salience of group membership cannot be seen as simply the blueprint for social life, but also as the outcome of social life.

ALEXANDER H. BOLYANATZ is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Benedictine University.

Preface A Note About Language Introduction Sursurunga Historical and Ethnographic Milieux: Contact, Christianity, Cash and Context Land and Matriliny Rethinking the Logic of Matriliny Sursurunga Mortuary Feasting The Antecedents of Mortuary Feasting Consequents of Mortuary Feasting: the Salience and Activation of Matriliny Conclusion Glossary References Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.7.2000
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-89789-721-8 / 0897897218
ISBN-13	978-0-89789-721-1 / 9780897897211
Zustand	Neuware