De re anthropologica

Kebidibidi [por Roy Wagner]

Roy Wagner The Curse of Souw: Principles of Daribi Clan Definition and Alliance in New Guinea

Figure 8. Reflexive hominization.

Roy Wagner An Anthropology of the Subject: Holographic Worldview in New Guinea and Its Meaning and Significance for the World of Anthropology

Kiaplakutt, mit Stirnnarben.

Otto Schlaginhaufen Anthropologie von Neuirland (Neumecklenburg) in der melanesischen Südsee: Die Beobachtungen am lebenden Eingeborenen

Missialan mit seinem Kind, operiert, von vorn und von der Seite.

Otto Schlaginhaufen Anthropologie von Neuirland (Neumecklenburg) in der melanesischen Südsee: Die Beobachtungen am lebenden Eingeborenen

A garden is freshly made from old fallow. The casuarin trees in the background have been planted on the site of old gardens which will be brought into future production. The land belongs to the natal kin of the woman who is making plots from the section she has been allotted by her brother, here preparing strings to align the ditches.

Marilyn Strathern No nature, no culture: the Hagen case Nature, Culture and Gender, editado por Carol P. MacCormack y Marilyn Strathern

Pregnancy cloak. c. 1915-1918

Bronislaw Malinowski Trobriand Islands fieldwork photographs LSE Library Malinowski Collection British Library of Political and Economic Science.

Gebusi gigobra costume

Bruce M. Knauft, fotos por Eileen M. Cantrell Bodily images in Melanesia: Cultural substances and natural metaphors Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part Three

Gebusi initiate with a heavy bark wig tied to his hair.

Bruce M. Knauft, fotos por Eileen M. Cantrell Bodily images in Melanesia: Cultural substances and natural metaphors Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part Three

Plate XI. A. Initiation in Kankanamun. The novice is sitting in the lap of his mother’s brother while initiators cut crescents above the novice’s nipples. The initiator with bird-of-paradise feathers in his hair is doing the cutting, while others observe his craftmanship and hold the novice.

B. The same initiation: the cutting of the novice’s back. Other initiators watch the operation.

Gregory Bateson Naven: A Survey of the Problems suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe drawn from Three Points of View