{"product_id":"quadripartite-structures-categories-relations-and-homologies-in-bush-mekeo-culture-paperback-9780521105385","title":"Quadripartite Structures; Categories, Relations and Homologies in Bush Mekeo Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521105385","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eQuadripartite Structures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCategories, Relations and Homologies in Bush Mekeo Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book was the first detailed, comprehensive study of Bush Mekeo culture and society.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMark S. Mosko (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521105385, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 March 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e316 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.47 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDespite almost a century of contact with Europeans, the Bush Mekeo people of Papua New Guinea are still essentially unknown to the anthropological world. This book was the first detailed, comprehensive study of Bush Mekeo culture and society. Using a rigourous structuralist approach to interpret in a consistent and systematic way the principal meanings and social practices of this South Seas way of life, Mark Mosko provides a convincing portrayal of Bush Mekeo culture and society as a unified, coherent and logical 'whole'. The main force of the book is to explore empirically the logic by which Bush Mekeo symbols are connected. Beginning with native symbolic constructions of space and time, Professor Mosko carefully unfolds the associated beliefs and practices pertaining to the body, to the relations between genders, to the system of social organisation and to the dramatic and resplendent Bush Mekeo mortuary ceremonial.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: the problem and the people\u003cbr\u003e 2. Between village and bush\u003cbr\u003e 3. Body and cosmos\u003cbr\u003e 4. Sex, procreation and menstruation\u003cbr\u003e 5. Male and female\u003cbr\u003e 6. Kin, clan and connubium\u003cbr\u003e 7. Feasts of death: de-conception and re-conception\u003cbr\u003e 8. Feasts of death: the sons of Akaisa\u003cbr\u003e 9. Tikopia and the Trobriands\u003cbr\u003e 10. Conclusions, indigenous categories, cultural wholes and historical process\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20anthropology,%20ethnography%20%5BJHMC%5D%22\"\u003eJHMC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006414835992,"sku":"9780521105385","price":35.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521105385i.jpg?v=1694976043","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/quadripartite-structures-categories-relations-and-homologies-in-bush-mekeo-culture-paperback-9780521105385","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}