{"product_id":"creative-land-place-and-procreation-on-the-rai-coast-of-papua-new-guinea-9781571815569","title":"Creative Land: Place and Procreation on the Rai","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tWhat is creative in kinship? How are people connected to places? James Leach answers these questions through formulating “creativity” as an integral part of kinship on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. The book contains a new critique of the genealogical model of kinship, suggesting that this model prevents us from grasping the way generative relations, including those to land and place, constitute persons on the Rai Coast. Analytic attention is focused upon the life cycle, marriage, exchange and artistic production as the activities in which substantial connection is generated. The argument, made in relation to detailed ethnography, yields a fresh perspective on the connections people trace to each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"What is new in Leach’s account is the emphasis Nekgini speakers put on land. His attention to this emphasis makes his ethnography in many ways a powerful development... the book as a whole is consistently stimulating and theoretically sophisticated throughout.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Joel Robbins, Contemporary Pacific\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"The ethnography itself is full of interesting observations and novel information, and repays a close reading with a vivid sense of the distinctiveness of Reite social life…\u003c\/i\u003eCreative Land\u003ci\u003e is itself ‘creative’ and will attain its own ‘place’ in the historical ‘landscape’ of studies of kinship in New Guinea and elsewhere.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Andrew Strathern, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Maps, Figures, Tables, and Photographs\u003cbr\u003e \tNotes on the Text\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/b\u003e The Rai Coast\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. Process and Kinship\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tKinship, Process, and Creativity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCognation and Flexibility\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tAn Alternative to the Genealogical Model\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Palem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2. Residence History and Palem\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tHamlets Past and Present\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tHamlets as Social Groups\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Labours of Lawrence Complexity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3. Marrying Sisters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDefining Relationships\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMyths and Explanations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4. Gardens, Land, and Growth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tOrigin Points\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tGendered Productivity: The Tambaran Households and Gardens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tGardening, not ‘Production’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tGardens, Land, and Substance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMale Continuity, Female Movement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5. Birth, Emergence, and Exchange\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Transactions Between Affinal Kin Focused on Children\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMother’s Brothers in the Anthropological Literature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tAffinal Payments and Lineality in Reite\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tVisibility and Recognition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6. Spirit, Flesh, and Bone\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Palem as a Body\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPerforming Places\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPeople and Spirits as Land Made Mobile\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7. Places and Bodies, Landscape and Perception\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Concept of Landscape in Anthropology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tHearing and Vision as Sensory Modalities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tLandscape in the Nekgini Lifeworld\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8. Creative Land\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tLand, Place, and Person\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tSimple Principles, Complex Process\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCreativity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tGlossary\u003cbr\u003e \tReferences\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041424048471,"sku":"9781571815569","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781571815569.jpg?v=1750950219","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/creative-land-place-and-procreation-on-the-rai-coast-of-papua-new-guinea-9781571815569","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}